Starting a program at boot

[Jeff Simmons]

Hello, Ubuntu users.

I need to start a program at boot time. The program has a -d switch that puts 
it into daemon mode, but Ubuntu won't let me run it as root.

init: security exit, root euid

Is there a way I can disable this, or, even better, start the program at boot 
(via rc.local, /etc/init.d, etc.) as a user other than root?

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Jeff Simmons                                   jsimmons at goblin.punk.net
Simmons Consulting - Network Engineering, Administration, Security
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