[luau] daemons running as root

[Brian Chee]

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

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----- Original Message -----
From: <tburns at despammed.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
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
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