sudo /bin/su nobody

[Steve Beaty]

Todd and all,

> I still don't see why you can't just use sudo and avoid su altogether.

	because i was making my life too complicated and missed the
	obvious... :-)  many thanks!  works great now.  all hail Todd!

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