> program calls getpwuid() with the real user id of the calling user maybe I missed a critical post explaining why it has to be, but that's a job for a trivial sudo specification line. I can't think of any reason why sudo is not the answer to your problem, or frankly isn't always the answer. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/