[ale] starting binaries as insignificant users

[jb at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)]

I have a server program I'd like to start as a userid that doesn't have a
login shell.  I've created the user, modified /etc/passwd to point to
/dev/null (I've tried /sbin/nologin as well), and the tried an "su user -c
process".

Apparently, su requires a valid shell.  What's the generally accepted way
of doing this?

Thanks!
John




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