Re: {bb} Auto-starting bb as non-root user on Slackware linux

[jlewis@lewis.org]

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Stephen Bates wrote:

> If anyone knows how to get bb to auto start when the host boots, without being
> owned by root, I'd appreciate some help.
> 
> Currently I have this in rc.local
> # start Big Brother
> echo "starting Big Brother client..."
> #su bb
> #cd /home/bb
> /home/bb/runbb.sh

Here's what I used to use to start rc5des as rc5 at bootup from rc.local.

su -c "./rc5des &" - rc5 &

To start bb as user bb, try

su -c "/home/bb/runbb.sh &" - bb &

Only one of the &'s is likely necessary...I never bothered figuring out
which one.  Alternatively, you could write a little C or perl script that
does a setgid and setuid to the bb user and then execs runbb.sh.  I'm
surprised a C version of such a program/script hasn't become part of bb by
now.

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