User Based Init

[Jerry Haltom <wasabi@larvalstage.net>]

I'm curious how many "wtf are you thinking?" reactions can be gathered
for the idea of a per-user init.d system?

I see this need a bit, for users who do development with various
services, but admin's not wanting to give them root for one reason or
another. Such as, apache or other web servers. Fetchmail?

(yes I realize fetchmail could be started from cron, which notably also
has a similar per user idea)

/var/lib/user-init/${uid}/init.d
/var/lib/user-init/%{uid}/rc${runlevel}.d

Would be started from /etc/init.d/user-init. Script would run in each
runlevel and run each user's various scripts just like a normal init
sequence, except chuid'd.

So, how insane am I?

This entire idea would consist of essentially one file and a empty
directory. :D

Jerry Haltom
Feedback Plus, Inc.