How to run a script with a boot/reboot with the ownership of a user

avijitp · 11-03-2006, 08:59 AM

Hi:

How can we start a script that will be running with the server boot or the server reboot with the ownership of the "user", not as a root.

I am aware that I can add the soft link of the script to the /etc/rc.d/rc.X/ directory , but I need to make sure that it runs with the ownership of the "user", not as a root.

theYinYeti · 11-03-2006, 09:11 AM

Which user? Until there's one user logged in, you don't know. Or maybe you know (eg: the "postfix" or "apache" user). Anyway:
- If you know, create a startup script, and launch this at startup: su - "$user" -c "/path/to/script"
- If you don't know, use the "autorun" ability of your users' window managers instead.

Yves.

avijitp · 11-03-2006, 09:29 AM

theYinYeti,

I was thinking the same way by writing the script in the runlevel 3 rc3.d directory and call my script with the ownership of the user.

This script is a monitoring script and this needed to be started with the ownership of the user as the users dont have the sudo access to run the script at startup.

Thanks for confirming my thought.

If anybody has another idea on this issue, please share