have a startup application run as a different user

hafio · 02-23-2008, 07:13 PM

is there a way to have applications starting at boot ran as a different user instead of root?

i realized if you put scripts in rcX.d folders, they are run as root. so i was hoping if i can change that in some way or another? thank you in advance

gilead · 02-23-2008, 09:09 PM

Yes you can. I have the following in one of my startup scripts to start Tomcat as the jakarta user:

Code:

/bin/su - jakarta -c /usr/local/bin/start-tomcat.sh