2020-10-27 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>

* Removed the runuser(1) dependency.

Signed-off-by: Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>

ChangeLog

@@ -20510,3 +20510,5 @@
 2020-10-27 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
 	* Refactored the 'Run Script' ['RN'] RML to invoke scripts via
 	the system shell.
+2020-10-27 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
+	* Removed the runuser(1) dependency.

configure.ac

@@ -270,14 +270,6 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADER(soundtouch/SoundTouch.h,[],[AC_MSG_ERROR([*** SoundTouch not fou
 AM_PATH_PYTHON([3])
 AC_SUBST(PYTHON_BASE_DEP,"python"`echo $PYTHON_VERSION | sed -e s/3./3/`)
 
-#
-# Check for runuser(1)
-#
-AC_PATH_PROG(RUNUSER_PATH,runuser)
-if test -z $RUNUSER_PATH ; then
-   AC_MSG_ERROR([*** runuser(1) not found ***])
-fi
-
 #
 # Check for FLAC
 #

docs/opsguide/rml.xml

@@ -1476,18 +1476,14 @@
       </para>
       <para>
 	<code>
-	  runuser -u <replaceable>user</replaceable>
-	  -g <replaceable>group</replaceable> <replaceable>cmd</replaceable>
-	  </code>
+	  /bin/sh -c <replaceable>cmd</replaceable>
+	</code>
       </para>
       <para>
-	where <replaceable>user</replaceable> and
-	<replaceable>group</replaceable> are the values specified by the
+	using the user and group specified by the
 	&quot;RnRmlOwner=&quot; and &quot;RnRmlGroup=&quot; directives in
 	the &quot;[Identity]&quot; section of
-	<command>rd.conf</command><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>. See the
-	<command>runuser</command><manvolnum>1</manvolnum> man page for
-	details concerning handling of the process enironment.
+	<command>rd.conf</command><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>.
       </para>
     </note>
   </sect2>

lib/rdpaths.h.in

@@ -50,10 +50,5 @@ extern "C" {
 #define RD_PYPAD_PYTHON_PATH "@PYTHON@"
 #define RD_PYPAD_SCRIPT_DIR "@libdir@/rivendell/pypad"
 
-/*
- * runuser(1)
- */
-#define RD_RUNUSER "@RUNUSER_PATH@"
-
 
 #endif  // RDPATHS_H