[vox-tech] running service as a different user

[Jan Wynholds]

Hi Patrick:

Can't you use xinetd?  I think it might be what you're looking for.

I think that xinetd just listens on the port and handles the starting of the
server.

Here is a sample of how telnet works through xinetd

service telnet
{
        flags           = REUSE
        socket_type     = stream        
        wait            = no
        user            = nonprivuser
        server          = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
        log_on_failure  += USERID
        disable         = no 
}

HTH,

jan

--- Patrick Stockton <codejnki@codejnki.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
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