Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014, Marc Haber wrote: [...] > On Sun, 11 May 2014, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> (2014-05-11): > > > Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an > > > init script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root > > > process from an init script? > > > > start-stop-daemon has: > > > > -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid] > > But the start-stop-daemon documentation seems to imply (please > correct me if I’m wrong) that it’s for starting (and stopping) > specific executables, as dæmons, with pidfiles, etc. – not for > just running some shell code (which may or may not start other > processes and/or dæmons) as another user. > > Taking dirmngr as example again: > > output=$(su -c ". /lib/lsb/init-functions && umask 027 && > start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON --daemon --sh" dirmngr) || return 1 > eval "$output" || return 1 > > Before preparing the NMU¹, I searched long and wide for something > using start-stop-daemon which could replace this piece of code, > and found it not.
I've prepared a NMU to replace su by start-stop-daemon and the change was pretty straightforward: output=$(start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --umask 027 --chuid dirmngr -- --daemon --sh) || return 1 eval "$output" || return 1 Cheers, Laurent Bigonville > > ① Note I did NMU dirmngr to remove the -l from the su call, > which was causing problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140513011414.0dad6...@fornost.bigon.be
