Run a process at boot time as another user

[Paul Guba]

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but init.d script would be system 
wide thing that happen at system boot up.  I believe you can add things 
to .profile at least you can on unix to start when a user logs in.  
These will run in the shell and end when user logs out.  I wouldn't 
think you can have an item start for a specific user until that user 
logs in.

P Guba
On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 03:15 AM, Matthew 'Fringe' Duhan wrote:

> Hopefully someone can help me. I seem to be having a brain fart on how 
> to do
> this. I would like to have a few programs start up when my system 
> boots, the
> way mysql, httpd (apache), etc do now. I figure that I can put a script 
> into
> /etc/rc.d/init.d and symbolically link to it in the runlevels I'd like 
> it to
> start in. But how do I get the programs to run under a user other than 
> root?
> For example, mysql on YDL 2.2 runs as user mysql out of the box. How 
> can I
> get one of these applications to run under a user I specify? Please 
> help.
> Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
> Matt
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