On Sunday March 9, 2003 9:30 am, Jason Lanpher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > What is the best/easiest way to set up services such as tomcat to > run as a different user than root? > I don't know if this is the best or easiest way to do this but many of the SuSE init scripts simply use: su username -c "command you want to run" to run the service as a user other than root. One example is running postgresql's postmaster, it is run as user postgres. man su for details. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list