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

[Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>]

Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

> 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
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Argh. You are completely right. RTFM is not enough, RTFMT is required
(last T is thoroughly). Thank you very much for fixing my braindead !.

Ciao
        Racke

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