[ale] Starting a prog. as a certain user

[Robert L. Harris]

Dan Mount wrote:
> 
> I need to start a program at boot time. I'd like to run this program as the
> user "ofsuser". I guess that I would start it from rc.local, but I'm unsure of
> how to exec a program as a certain user.
> 
> I'm running RedHat 4.2
> 

In rc.local:

su - ofsuser -c "put your command here" &

Make sure you use the " or it will execute the first word of the command
only.

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