How do you control who run a particular program at startup?

Akhran · 02-07-2006, 05:07 PM

Assuming I have this script called 'testscript' in /etc/rc2.d/

Code:

/etc/rc2.d/S20testscript -> ../init.d/testscript

Is it possible for 'testscript' to run as USER 'userA' instead of 'root' at startup, so that if I do a 'ps aux', I'll get

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
----------------------------------------------------------------------
userA 6334 0.0 0.5 443 443 ? Ss 06:20 0:00 /usr/bin/testscript
^
|
userA instead of root here
(which is shown correctly above)

Thanks.

cs-cam · 02-07-2006, 05:51 PM

Probably not the rc script itself, but you could make that script use su to pass on any specific work to a user.

Code:

su -c /usr/bin/myprog userA