Thanks for the help everyone. Now I know that I must use the "su" command to
accomplish this. I.E. - #su - username -c
/programname
Seve
-----Original Message-----
From: Sevatio Octavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:21 PM
Subject: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User - How To?
>Typically if I wanted to run something automatically at bootup, I would put a
>statement into /etc/rc.d/rc.local . Those apps will
>run under the ownership of 'root'. How do you get rc.local to run apps under a
>specific user?
>
>Seve
>
>
