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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:03:54 +0600
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rc.d and environment variables
Message-ID:  <20101224080354.GA21712@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4D14233F.4070107@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
References:  <20101223172752.GA8539@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20101223201249.ea7648aa.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101223191443.GA24653@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20101224031352.GB16472@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20101224042542.3e21a6df.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101224035041.GF16472@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <4D14233F.4070107@herveybayaustralia.com.au>

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Da Rock wrote:

[dd]

> Doesn't the rc.d script run as root initially and then a method (default 
> flags, etc) is used to change the owner to a nobody (restricted 
> privilege user)? Just my 2c, but please correct me if I'm wrong.


That is probably correct, rc.subr does "su -m $user", but the login
class is not applied there, nor is the users's shell called.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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