Re: [OT] starting damons as non-priv

[Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca>]

said ktb (on 2003-03-18),

> 1) How can you tell if a program is actually running as a non-privileged
> user?
>
> For example proftpd is configured to run as "User nobody" and "Group
> nogroup" but when I do a "lsof|grep proftpd" "root" is listed as the
> user.
>
> proftpd   5884 root    0u  IPv4  20170 TCP *:ftp (LISTEN)
>
> 2) If I create an in house damon and have it owned by user "nobody" but
> start it from a shell as root which user actually owns this process?


I have used "su nobody -c 'command arguments'".

Geordie.