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On (2003/12/15 11:49), Ernst de Haan wrote:

> No. If we start using something other than daemonctl, then that's perfectly 
> fine, but then we must keep the functionality we provide at this very 
> moment. Perhaps we could have just a single wrapper C program that will set 
> the UID and/or GID and then executes a script with the specified arguments.

Okay.  I'm still trying to understand what functionality we're trying to
preserve.

Are you just trying to ensure that non-root users are able to start
Tomcat/Jboss/etc as www (or whatever)?

Ciao,
Sheldon.