Comment 22 for bug 395281
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| Simon MacMullen (simon-macmullen) wrote | #22 |
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Steve Langasek said:
> su *is* the wrong tool to use for starting services, because su *is* defined
> to start PAM sessions.
Gosh, I wish I'd seen that a year ago :)
I hope this is a reasonable place to ask the following question:
So if I can't use su, what can I use? I want to start the rabbit process as the "rabbitmq" user, and Erlang programs can't easily setuid(3). I'm not aware of an alternative to su, but I could well be ignorant.