Re: How to start a user process on boot?

[Florian Ernst <florian@uni-hd.de>]

Hi Carsten!

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:12:53AM +0100, Carsten Schulz wrote:
> I want to start a p2p program while booting. I tried to write a script 
> for /etc/init.d it works but only as root.
> I want the program starting as a user process (for security reasons).
>
> How can root start automatically a process as a user?

Many bootscripts use start-stop-daemon which has the option -c
user:group, take a look at /etc/init.d/skeleton and modify to your
needs.

I personally run Folding@Home this way.

Other ways are sudo and su -c, or setting it setuid, but the latter
won't work for a script anyway ;)

HTH,
Flo

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