teamspeak2-server >>> start as different user ?

[romhelfen]

Hello,

I emerged teamspeak 2 and so far, so good, both client and server are working fine.

BUT: I read in different tutorials that you should not start the server as user root (for security reasons). Portage added the following user:

[teamspeak2:x:101:100:added by portage for teamspeak2-server-bin:/dev/null:/bin/false]

So far I started the server as user root

[/etc/init.d/teamspeak2-server start]

So my question is:
How do I start the teamspeak2-server as user teamspeak2 (see above) ? There must be a reason why portage added this user.

Kind regards,
romhelfen

[exklusve]

Have you checked out the config files in /etc/conf.d ?
I'm not sure what to suggest, i just execute the binary from my home directory when i want to run TS on my server.
Maybe post your config files?
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eXklusve

You do know that no one gives a shit about your system spec's right?

[romhelfen]

@eXklusve

Which binary do you execute from your HOME? As listed in the init-script TS-server needs a lot of parameters:

start() {
ebegin "Starting TeamSpeak Server"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid teamspeak2 \
--exec /opt/teamspeak2-server/server_linux -- \
-db=/var/lib/teamspeak2-server/server.dbs \
-ini=/var/lib/teamspeak2-server/server.ini \
-log=/var/log/teamspeak2-server/server.log \
-pid=/var/run/teamspeak2-server/server.pid \
-sql=/opt/teamspeak2-server/sql/ \
-tcpquerydocs=/opt/teamspeak2-server/tcpquerydocs \
-httpdocs=/opt/teamspeak2-server/http/ &>/dev/null
eend $?
}

In my /etc/conf.d there is no file related to TS

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[romhelfen]

Hello,

my problem is solved as there is no problem at all!

After starting the TS-server with

/etc/init.d/teamspeak2-server -start

and

ps aux | grep server_linux

I noticed that the related processes are all owned by user teamspeak2. So it seems that the user-change is managed by the binary server_linux.

romhelfen

[jannis]

The init-script changes the suid as defined here: