The way you make the service start/stop by a specific user is to make sure the OS-standard start/stop script do su/sudo at the correct point.
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt <[email protected]> writes: > > > I would like to use the type "service" to ensure that a service is > currently > > started. Is there a way to specify a user that must run start or stop > > command? > > No. Traditionally, the start and stop commands would ensure that the > software > ran as the correct user internally — most of them map directly to the OS > facilities that start and stop services at boot time, which require that. > > I would strongly advise you follow that same path, because otherwise you > risk a tiny typo or user-error resulting in your daemon running as root. > > Daniel > -- > ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ [email protected] ☎ +61 401 155 > 707 > ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<puppet-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
