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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.willamette.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do you start non-root daemon? Date: 17 Nov 1995 12:36:53 -0800 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Lines: 11 Sender: nawaz921@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <im91lf7zbu.fsf@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <48de1p$40l@shore.shore.net> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: witr@spooky.rwwa.com's message of 15 Nov 1995 19:11:53 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.9 In article <48de1p$40l@shore.shore.net> witr@spooky.rwwa.com writes: $ What is the proper FreeBSD way to start (say from rc.local) a $ daemon that needs to run with some UID *other* than root? echo proggie -args | su -m otheruid $ I'm used to the Sysv ``su -C'' way... that is certainly the behavior of -current; -stable too, perhaps.