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Re: Starting Program as non-root



On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:56:52PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:55:25PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr (benpharr@freedom2000net.com) wrote:
> > I need to start up a program (setiathome) as non-root from the startup 
> > scripts.  I have access to the scripts, I just want it to run as a regular 
> > user.  Can anyone tell me how?  Thanks in advance!
> 
>     $ man su

no no, man start-stop-daemon

specifically start-stop-daemon --chuid foo.foo

advantage: no bogus su log entries.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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