How does init determine the user to run a daemon as

[Jan M]

Hi Roger,

Thanks. How does init determine which user to run the daemon as? Is it the
executable owner?

Jan


"Roger Oberholtzer" <roger at opq.se> wrote in message
news:1127470081.25684.69.camel at acme.pacific...
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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