How does init determine the user to run a daemon as

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 20:26, Jan M wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A couple of quickies:
> 
> 1) How does init determine which user to run a daemon as?
> 
> 2) How does init run a daemon as a user without knowing the password for
> that user?

init runs as root, who can su to anyone without a password. Same as the
su command.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> 
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