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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:05 am    Post subject: [SOLVED] Running a Startup Application as Non-Root Reply with quote

How would I set an application (Halo Server in Wine) to run on startup, but not run as root?
It's a bad idea to run any Wine thing as root, and I don't want to have to manually start it or enter my password to sudo as a different user.
Should I edit the sudoers file to allow me to run the server without a password as a different user?


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That should work. If I recall correctly, the TuxOnIce hibernate script includes some scriptlets that su to the X user so that they can lock/deactivate the X screensaver. It appears they run: /bin/su "$user" -c "/command/as/non/root --with-arguments". Note that this will produce an entry in the system logs reporting the su event.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you so much!
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