Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Steve Langasek: > > The disadvantage of the sudo method is that you are spawning a PAM > > session, which is not desirable for any service. > > > Ah. Thanks for the reminder; mentioning the session issue completely > slipped my mind. :-/ > > If one does need to use a sudo intermediate to start services, the > 'pam_session', 'pam_setcred', and 'use_pty' flags should be turned > off, as well as sudo's internal logging. > > This will cause sudo to not create a PAM session, and directly exec() > the daemon instead of running an intermediate fork. > > See "man 5 sudoers" for details.
You probably want to use "runuser" that has been introduced recently in utils-linux Cheers, Laurent Bigonville -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141119112407.70d93...@soldur.bigon.be