Hi,

Marc Haber:
> >start-stop-daemon has:
> >       -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid]
> 
> Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD
> Unices?
> 
No. BSD has daemon(8). If you want portability, you probably need to check
what's available. (start-stop-daemon, daemon (on BSDs), sudo)

FreeBSD's /bin/su, by the way, is using PAM too (see the manpage).
So I wouldn't trust it to not do any session magic either.

-- 
-- Matthias Urlichs


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