Services default to starting as root
at boot time on my RHEL box. IIRC, the same is true for other Linux distros which use the init scripts in /etc/init.d
.
What do you think is the best way to instead have the processes run as a (static) user of my choosing?
The only method I'd arrived at was to use something like:
su my_user -c 'daemon my_cmd &>/dev/null &'
But this seems a bit untidy...
Is there some bit of magic tucked away that provides an easy mechanism to automatically start services as other, non-root users?
EDIT: I should have said that the processes I'm starting in this instance are either Python scripts or Java programs. I'd rather not write a native wrapper around them, so unfortunately I'm unable to call setuid() as Black suggests.