Re: inittab process ownership

2001-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:02:49AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > man su? Not sure, but that's where I'd look. Possibly also a suid > executable, where UID != root. suid bits can only be used to elevate privileges, not reduce them. when you run a suid binary only the euid is changed, no

Re: inittab process ownership

2001-01-11 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:57:19AM -0500, Dahiroc, Patrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > is it possible to have processes brought up via inittab not to be owned by > root? i would like some user processes automatically brought up on boot-up > and automatically respawned, but i want the process to

Re: inittab process ownership

2001-01-11 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, can you not add a line with su, as in normal scripts? I do not remember how to do this correctly, but it is an idea. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Dahiroc, Patrick wrote: > is it possible to have processes brought up via inittab not to be owned by > root? i would like some user

Re: inittab process ownership

2001-01-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
Here is one possible way: su user -c "/path/to/command" where user is who you want the process to run as. -Rob On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:57:19AM -0500, Dahiroc, Patrick wrote: > is it possible to have processes brought up via inittab not to be owned by > root? i would like some user processes

inittab process ownership

2001-01-11 Thread Dahiroc, Patrick
is it possible to have processes brought up via inittab not to be owned by root? i would like some user processes automatically brought up on boot-up and automatically respawned, but i want the process to be owned by a non-root user. i'm aware that daemontools and the like can do this for me, but