Brian Gallew <g...@gallew.org> writes:
G'day Brian.
The mechanism for ensuring your software runs with the right privileges
actually varies a lot: some providers (like launchd) handle that internally,
other platforms (like Debian) provide specific tools to do it.
Additionally, many applications integrate this support, especially tools that
require some period of execution with elevated privileges (like Apache).
However, for writing your own scripts the use of su or sudo can be effective;
my personal preference is to use a tool like daemon[1] that wraps up a whole
lot of the things that su doesn't for starting a daemon.
Regards,
Daniel
> The way you make the service start/stop by a specific user is to make sure the
> OS-standard start/stop script do su/sudo at the correct point.
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
>
>> Matt <matthieu.nant...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I would like to use the type "service" to ensure that a service is
>> currently > started. Is there a way to specify a user that must run start or
>> stop > command?
>>
>> No. Traditionally, the start and stop commands would ensure that the
>> software ran as the correct user internally — most of them map directly to
>> the OS facilities that start and stop services at boot time, which require
>> that.
>>
>> I would strongly advise you follow that same path, because otherwise you
>> risk a tiny typo or user-error resulting in your daemon running as root.
>>
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Footnotes:
[1] http://www.libslack.org/daemon/
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