On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald
<mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
>Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber:
>> On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>
>> 
>> wrote:
>> >Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> (2014-05-11):
>> >> Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init
>> >> script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root process from
>> >> an init script?
>> >
>> >start-stop-daemon has:
>> >       -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid]
>> 
>> Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD
>> Unices?
>
>Good question and I think the answer is a no.
>
>So… instead of changing the script it may be better to provide a systemd unit 
>file for dirmngr, then the script can remain as it is.

This will also cause double effort since Debian needs special handling
that no other distribution obviously needs.

Greetings
Marc
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