How does init determine the user to run a daemon as

[A. Khattri]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Jan M wrote:

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

I think most stuff runs as root unless it takes steps to su to another
user. Apache for example will startup and then drop privs by becoming a
user called "apache" or "www" or "nobody"

In most cases there is a config file for most services.

> "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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