Re: start-stop-daemon refuses to run as certain user

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On 11/1/2000 Stefan Hornburg wrote:

>         start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
>                 --user $USERNAME --exec $DAEMON -- -f 
> /etc/minivend/minivend.cfg
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think what you need is --chuid $USERNAME rather then --user, see below:

[eb@plato eb]$ /sbin/start-stop-daemon --help

[...]

  -c|--chuid <name|uid[:group|gid]>
                change to this user/group before starting process
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  -u|--user <username>|<uid>    stop processes owned by this user
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[...]
Exit status:  0 = done  1 = nothing done (=> 0 if --oknodo)  2 = trouble
[eb@plato eb]$


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