Upstart service ownership - when does it change?

[Bobbus]

Best practice says that each process should be owned by it's own individual user. For example: Apache is owned by the apache user, Postfix is owner by the postfix user.

Lets say I've installed pure-ftp and created a 'pureftp' system user that I want to own the pure-ftpd daemon.

Since it's launched at boot time by upstart, the files are owned and run by root.

At what point, and how, do I set the ownership of pure-ftpd to the prureftp system user?


Thanks for taking the time to look at this.

[spjackson]

Does this help?

[Bobbus]

Thanks for the link.

I could hack the pure-ftpd init.d script to launch it under a different user …… but neither apache not Postfix do it this way this way within their scripts.

There must be a more elegant way of doing this?