Take a look at http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialInitProcess.html
I forget exactly the usage of the daemon but you need to include the functions, which is shown at the init script example. If you read that functions file it will give you an idea of how to use it to start up a service and have it run as a different user. On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Dieter De Meyer <dieterdeme...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > I modified the rc script to run as a user. > But now I'm facing the following problem: > I have to include some nasty puppet code for adding the service before i > can use the service resource type. > And the service resource type returns ok, but the service is in fact not > started. > When i do it manually, it requires a password for that user. > So, I tried to manage the user with puppet and provided a password, but get > the message: > Provider useradd does not support features manages_passwords; not managing > attribute password > I know this is a problem with Puppet and CentOS, but I have ruby-shadow and > shadow-utils installed on my CentOS 6.0 VM. > > I also don't know if this is going to help with starting the service. > I want to use the service type to start the service with a specific user, > but without asking for a password. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Regards. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/9sm5V3MccfoJ. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
