how to start a process/daemon as a different user 1

[LaylaNahar]

Hello,


If I am logged in as userA and I want to start process as userB (userB being something other than root) how do I do this?

(I'm setting up and troubleshooting smokeping. I got some help that says, "Make sure smokeping is running as

http://www:www

or has permissions to /var/

http://www/smokeping

as the user you want it to run at.")

This is my first time setting up a linux system. I have yet to make any changes to the sudoers file.

thank you

LN

 

[Annihilannic]

Normally su

http://www -c

"/path/to/command", however that will prompt you for a password if you are not root in the first place. Use su [red]-[/red]

http://www -c

"/path/to/command" if the process depends on some environment configuration in that user's .profile or .bashrc or similar.

If you need it to be passwordless, you can set up a sudo rule. man sudoers to see how to set up the rules, jump down to the examples at the bottom for the plain English version.

Annihilannic.

 

[LaylaNahar]

Thank you Annihilannic. A nice concise answer, and it really helped me understand things better.

thanks again!