priv allows authorised users to execute commands that run as different users. When priv is invoked, it reads a list of authorised commands from a database file called ${PREFIX}/etc/priv/ Each line of the database file is a colon-separated list of fields. The first two fields must be specified. Blank lines or lines beginning with a ``#'' character are ignored. The fields, in order, are: expiry date user name to run command as flags command name The format of the expiry date is YYYYMMDDhhmm. A date of ``0'' is interpreted as no expiry date.