[omniORB] Running omniNames as a non-priviledged user?

[Anthony Schlemmer]

I'm made use of the "omniNames" init script to allow the name service to 
be started up when the system boots. With "omniNames" started this way 
though it runs as a process owned by root. I'm always looking at 
whether or not a process really needs to be owned by root and so is 
there any reason that I can't run the CORBA name service as a non-root 
user? I have the name server listening on a non-priviledged port of 
2809 so a non-root owned process could open that port as well.

I think to do this I'd need to make few tweaks to the init script to 
make sure the /var/omniNames and /var/lib/omniMapper directories are 
already created and owned by the non-root userid I want to own the 
"omniNames" process. Also I don't know if I can save off the PID into a 
file in /var/run. I was going to try and use "su -c ..." to run 
omniNames as a non-priviledge user.

Thanks,

Tony 

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Anthony Schlemmer
aschlemm at comcast.net