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Old 03-09-2005, 09:27 AM   #1
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'run as' from rc.5 startup script

As part of the startup of a red hat server, I need to start a service as a specific user. How can I do this?

I can just add this to 'S99local' in the rc.5 dir, but this runs as root...

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Old 03-09-2005, 10:01 AM   #2
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man su

You'll want something like su - username -c command

Something like that.
 
Old 03-10-2005, 02:36 AM   #3
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Thanks for that - testing just now...

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