From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net ([207.108.112.1]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15wZH2-0000uK-00 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:25:32 -0400 Received: (qmail 37182 invoked by uid 50); 25 Oct 2001 01:25:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 37067 invoked by uid 0); 25 Oct 2001 01:25:31 -0000 Received: from tcsndslgw4poola102.tcsn.uswest.net (HELO lightstar) (63.227.85.102) by tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net with SMTP; 25 Oct 2001 01:25:31 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jason To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: running programs as nonroot user Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:25:30 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200110250029.f9P0TqT60307@mail2.mx.voyager.net> In-Reply-To: <200110250029.f9P0TqT60307@mail2.mx.voyager.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01102418253005.09339@lightstar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: what are you trying to start up? something like an IRC server? in that case the only way I know of is to make the binary setuid On Wednesday October 24, 2001 05:29 pm, you wrote: > Hi again, > > How does one run a program from /etc/rc.d/rc.local as a normal user and not > as root? Thanks. Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup