On 22/06/2011, at 7:39 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > yuck. > if you just want to manage daemons running as your own user, su and > sudo shouldn't even be involved. > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:05:35 +0100 > Owain Sutton <m...@owainsutton.co.uk> wrote: >
I have to disagree. Some daemons run as a different user like httpd or mpd for instance. They are started by root but are su'd to the user needed. I don't see any need to run an actual "user" daemon but if I did, that would be the way I would do it.
