Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:59:43 +0100 (BST) From: Michael Grant <mg-fbsd2@grant.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: running a program as nobody Message-ID: <200110262059.VAA21039@splat.grant.org>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I want to run a particular daemon as userid nobody. I tried the obvious thing of using su like this: su -c nobody nobody /usr/local/bin/food but no matter what I try, I cannot get something like this to work. Is there some standard way to do this other than writing a C program wrapper myself? I see something called "jail" but that seems a bit heafty, it looks like I would have to install a complete version of freebsd in some directory practically creating a virtual machine. Surely there must be some simple way to do run a program as nobody, maybe chrooted as well? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200110262059.VAA21039>