Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 19:11:22 -0400 From: Ed Keith <edk@kew.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: setting UID of program Message-ID: <37488B1A.35F89627@kew.com>
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I want to run a daemon on startup. The catch is that I do not want this
daemon to run as root. I tried to use "su <user name> -c <script name>"
this works when I run it from the shell as root, but not from rc.local.
What am I doing wrong?
-EdK
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