[Tripwire-announce] crontab messages - single user system

[ahimsa <ah...@on...>]

My system is a Red Hat 8.0 for a single user, which I obviously run
using my user rather than root account. I am wanting to design a cron
script to get tripwire to do regular integrity checks for my whole
system which would require it to scan system files that my user account
settings are not allowed to access. Is it (a) feasible to write a script
to do this in the background *as if* root were logged on (but actually
isn't) and then (b) to mail me (the user) a report upon completion? I
hope that this is making sense, and just to make sure without being
redundant: cron script to check system integrity recursively (requiring
root privileges) with output mailed to user *without* having to invoke
'su' each time it runs?
Thanks. 
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ahimsa <ah...@on...>