Date: 12 Dec 2003 01:01:02 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: David.Bear@asu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: startup scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d Message-ID: <441xrah8wx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031211173501.G4978@asu.edu> References: <20031211173501.G4978@asu.edu>
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David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> writes: > I am wondering if scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d MUST be owned by root > in order to be run. No. They have to be executable by root. > If I have a daemon on want started, AND I want it to run as user > "DORK", can I have the binary and the startscript owned by user "DORK" > in order to have it started that way? It will run, but it will still run as root. > the more I think about this, the more I get confused... Apparently. > If a startup script lives in /usr/local/etc/rc.d does its ownership > determine the ownership of the process it starts? No. > or is the the owner of the binary the script starts that determines > the owner of the process Not that either. > And, if it needs to change ownership, is it up to the program itself > to change who it runs as? The script can start a program under a different user if it wants. Many of the standard ones do so, typically using su(1). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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