Hopefully someone else has run across this one...if the answer is to be found I know to look here from past experience (thanks to all)

Running RedHat Linux 9, everything working peachy for the most part.

I have VNC setup to start at boot by adding the command line

/usr/bin/vncserver -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 -name Servername :1

to /etc/rc.local

after the initial reboot and entering the session password to use at the console, everything works on subsequent reboots. I am able to attach and everythign.

The problem I have with this is that the session is running as 'root' and I would like to determine if possible, how to make it run using an alternate set of credentials.

I've created a standard user that I wish to use to run the session. I CAN NOT have auto-logon or anything like that happening. I want the few users who know about this server to be able to make a VNC connection to it and if 'root' access is needed, they will need to do an 'su -' at the CLI.

Is anyone aware of how to make this happen, I guess what I am looking for is similar to assigning a user account to services in the Windows world...

TIA for any help, greatly appreciated.

personally i just use

not sure why that never dawned on me...i actually found the same information via a google shortly after posting...

for anyone else interested in the future, here is the link to the page i found: (look in section 4.2)

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Network...ith_Linux.html

I've tried it and it does now indeed run under the alternate credentials...of course I am now just getting the 'plain grey screen' but that's an easy fix and has been touched on numerous times here.

Thanks for the push in the right direction.

Hope this helps someone else.

it has me. thanks.
Hazzie.