Re: How run a daemon as non-root user

Ubuntu lets users control root programs with sudo. What you do is put your username and program in the /etc/sudoers file, and I believe there is a nopasswd option, so you don't need to enter the passwd everytime, like with su.

Google for "/etc/sudoers" and read the tutorials. If you set it up right, you keep the root perms on the daemon script, and run it, as a user, with "sudo myscript". It should launch with root permissions.

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Re^2: How run a daemon as non-root user by duckyd (Hermit) on Dec 05, 2008 at 21:38 UTC
Unless I read the original post incorrectly, the poster is explicitly trying to avoid launching the daemons with root permissions...	[reply]
Re^3: How run a daemon as non-root user by Joost (Canon) on Dec 05, 2008 at 22:25 UTC
Unless the programs the OP wants to run need root-permissions to do whatever it is they do, there isn't any need to run them as root. Daemonizing does not require root permissions in any sane system. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^4: How run a daemon as non-root user by halfbaked (Sexton) on Dec 06, 2008 at 01:46 UTC
Well the pid is stored in /var/run and I can't put together the information to create a user like postgres or apache that can create a pid in /var/run other than root. I realize this is probably a silly question, so I can't imagine the answer would be too complicated. It's probably more of a OS issue than Perl, like I said I'm running Debian/Linux.	[reply]
Re^5: How run a daemon as non-root user by JavaFan (Canon) on Dec 06, 2008 at 02:26 UTC
Re^3: How run a daemon as non-root user by zentara (Cardinal) on Dec 06, 2008 at 17:05 UTC
Both su and sudo allow you to run as another user, usually root, but not neccessarily. See sudo allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user (normally the superuser, aka. root). I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are	[reply]