[vox-tech] running service as a different user

[Patrick Stockton]

I'm testing around with a jabber server and don't want to run the 
service as root when I have the jabberd service start from an init script.

named and mysql support user flags that tell it to run the process as a 
different user but jabberd doesn't seem to have a similar flag.

Now I've created a user and group named jabber and plan on assigning 
permissions to the jabber directories to the jabber user.  The jabber 
user does not have log on rights to the system.  How can I have the 
system run the jabber service as a different user?  Is there some sort 
of wrapper I can use?

I'm using Mandrake 8.2 and have compiled the jabber server from source.

Patrick