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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 22:42:26 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Alan Gerber <agerber@unity.ncsu.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Run program as different user
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In-Reply-To: <KJELJICNOFNHBNGEPFEKCEAGCDAA.agerber@unity.ncsu.edu>; from agerber@unity.ncsu.edu on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:39:53AM -0500
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On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:39:53AM -0500, Alan Gerber wrote:
> Hello FreeBSD!
>=20
> I recently began playing with the concept of starting a daemon at startup
> (from what I gather, I should put the initialization commands into
> rc.local), but the tough part is that I need this program run in a non-ro=
ot
> environment (ie- not as root!).  Is there a good way to do this?  Please
> respond to my email address (not the list), because I am not subscribed y=
et.

su(1) or sudo in ports.

Kris

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