How does init determine the user to run a daemon as

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:30 +0100, Jan M wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> Thanks. How does init determine which user to run the daemon as? Is it the
> executable owner?

inittab runs it as root. However, the scripts that inittab may cause to
be run for each runlevel can choose to start a daemon as any user. Or
the daemon itself may fork to another user based on a config file it
likes. But the scripts in rcX.d start life as root.

> 
> 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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