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

[Neil Greenwood]

On 23 June 2010 21:45, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>[snip]
> 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?
>

Write an init script that uses sudo or su to run the shoutcast daemon
as another user?

You shouldn't need to enter a password if you run su as root, IIRC.


Cofion,
Neil.