If you want to execute a command with root privileges, you normally use the command "sudo". But of course you can execute a command also as any other user. E.g. I need to execute some script for my backup as user "backuppc". then I just type:
sudo -u backuppc /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status info
Instead of the username (backuppc) one can also use the user id (uid).
I have two hard drives and the partitioning is as follows:
hda1 120 GB
/dev/hda1 100 MB Linux ext3 /boot
/dev/hda2 95 GB Linux ext3 /home
/dev/hda3 1 GB Linux swap
/dev/hdb4 Extended partition
/dev/hdb5 17 GB Linux /
hdb1 32 GB
/dev/hdb1 100 MB Linux ext3 /boot
/dev/hdb2 1 GB Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 Extended partition
/dev/hdb4 12 GB NTFS Windows2000
/dev/hdb5 18 GB Linux reiserfs
I switched to Suse 9. I can't figure out from RedHat's announcements what they are really up to. So I better get used to an alternative right now. I also switched from Gnome to KDE and at least on Suse 9, I like KDE more than Gnome on Red Hat 9.