[ubuntu-uk] Running daemon at startup as another user

[Rob Beard]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to setup Shoutcast on a VPS server for a mate of mine as a 
favour.  The VPS server is running Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64.

Now I gather from reading up, it is recommended that the shoutcast 
daemon is run as a user rather than root (presumably for security purposes).

The thing is, I can't figure out how to do it.  At first I thought of 
creating an init script, but presumably it'll run as root?

I also thought about cron, but I guess that would require me to enter a 
start time (so if the server goes down say in the middle of the day then 
it'll have to wait until the start time in the crontab?)

So I wondered if there was any way of running the shoutcast daemon as 
another user basically from when the machine boots?

Rob