[luau] daemons running as root

[Gary Dunn]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:13:48 -0500 (EST)
tburns at despammed.com wrote:

> How does one get daemons to run as a user other than root?

Check to see if the binary is setuid. If you want it to run as nobody,
chown nobody, then chmod to make setuid. Or, turn off setuid and try the
su -c method you mentioned.

Not all daemons can be treated this way; some require root access.


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