Actually I second that motion.....my wish is a way to start a program during boot (daemon) but run as a dedicated user (kinda like nobody) so that I can limit possible damage. chroot comes to mind, but how to I get the program as a different user?
/brian chee University of Hawaii ICS Dept Advanced Network Computing Lab 1680 East West Road, POST rm 311 Honolulu, HI 96822 808-956-5797 voice, 808-956-5175 fax ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:13 PM Subject: [luau] daemons running as root > How does one get daemons to run as a user other than root? > > I tried using: > > su <username> -c <invoke daemon> > > but it doesn't seem to work. Are the daemons supposed to change their own privilege level? > > One problem is that the system I'm actually trying to fix is running IRIX, not linux. But there's usually enough common ground that I can figure out what will work on one from finding out what works on the other. Maybe not in this case. > > Dazed Dave > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
