said ktb (on 2003-03-18), > 1) How can you tell if a program is actually running as a non-privileged > user? > > For example proftpd is configured to run as "User nobody" and "Group > nogroup" but when I do a "lsof|grep proftpd" "root" is listed as the > user. > > proftpd 5884 root 0u IPv4 20170 TCP *:ftp (LISTEN) > > 2) If I create an in house damon and have it owned by user "nobody" but > start it from a shell as root which user actually owns this process?
I have used "su nobody -c 'command arguments'". Geordie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
