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Changing owner of a process

Hi There

Somebody restarted a processes as root user, which has now meant that process is run by root, is there away to change this back?

Code:

[casupport@wycvlapph048 ~]$ ps -efl | grep Introscope_Enterprise_Manager.lax



4 S root    10541    1 16  80  0 - 2844020 futex_ Feb06 ?      9-03:07:34 ./jre/bin/java -Xms6144m -Xmx6144m -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Dmail.mime.charset=UTF-8 -Dorg.owasp.esapi.resources=./config/esapi -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC -Xss512k com.zerog.lax.LAX /opt/ca/APM_971/APM_Software/bin/../Introscope_Enterprise_Manager.lax /tmp/env.properties.10541

Is there anyway to change this process back to the user it was before?

Cheers

The best way would be to stop the process then restart it as the desired user.

I don't know of a way of changing the owner of a running process while it is running and it doesn't sound like a good idea because root would own various things that any other owner wouldn't have access to.

Hi MensaWater

Thanks for the quick reply, that sounds pretty straight forward, silly me!

Will give it a try

Thanks again :)