running a service as a normal user

[sionut]

Hi,
I need to run a service on my machine as a normal user (for licensing purposes, the user executing the commands will get to a license server, which will grant me the rights). Is there a way to do that ?

Currently I have the service set up with chkconfig - it starts and everything, but as root.

Thank you,
Ionut

[huguley]

Add an su to your init script to change the user the service runs as:

su -m username -c /sbin/service

[nucleo]

Hi

If you have script which use function daemon, try add to daemon option --user username.

[sionut]

Thank you guys, it works now.