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From: "Greg Albrecht" <gregoryba@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: startup script with non-root user
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according to rc.subr(8):

                 ${name}_user
                           User to run command as, using chroot(8).  if
                           ${name}_chroot is set, otherwise uses su(1).  Only
                           supported after /usr is mounted.

so in your /etc/rc.conf you could put:

hobbit_enable=YES
hobbit_user="hobbit"


-g

On 19/01/07, Don Munyak <don.munyak@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an application I'd like to startup at boot, however, the script
> needs to be started by a non-user account.
>
> If I put the startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hobbit.sh
>
> How do I get it to start using the user account 'hobbit'
>
> Thanks
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