Run a process at boot time as another user

[Matthew 'Fringe' Duhan]

Paul,
  Please reread my original message. Starting a "system wide thing that
happen at system boot up" is exactly what I'm looking to do, and NOT when a
user logs in/out. I want to run a background process as someone other than
root, to minimize the security risks.

Thanks,
Matt

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Paul Guba wrote:
>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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