Re: intent of package seti@home

[Kirk Hilliard <kirk@ghoti.com>]

Kenneth Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com> writes:

> I already downloaded the program (version .46 for glib2 i386).  I
> created a seti account and installed the program into that account and
> set the .bash_profile to run the program after login.  I did not thing
> it a good idea to run as root! (but how else can the program be started
> from init.d?)

What keeps you from having the init.d script su to nobody (or some
other appropriate user) before starting it?

Kirk Hilliard