[ale] starting binaries as insignificant users

[jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu (Jonathan Glass (IBB))]

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:30, John Wells wrote:
> 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

Look in /etc/xinetd.d/ at the config files.  You should be able to
duplicate one of these, modify it to fit your application and username,
register it with chkconfig (man chkconfig), and have it start at boot.

HTH

Jonathan Glass

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