[SOLVED] How to run polipo as daemon with user polipo?

[rainer]

I want to use polipo as a local proxy. Everything fine so far, but when I start polipo as a daemon via

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/etc/init.d/polipo start

it runs as root. So I better not add it to the startup script via

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rc-update add polipo default

But why?
This code snippet from /etc/init.d/polipo is supposed to make it run as polipo, isn't it?

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        start-stop-daemon --start --user polipo \
                --background --pidfile /var/run/polipo.pid --make-pidfile \
                        --exec /usr/bin/polipo

What can I do to have polipo starting from boot time as its own user?

Thanks,
Rainer

EDIT:

I'd better done this before - actually trying...
I added polipo to the boot level default, rebooted - and the user was polipo when I started again!

I didn't imagine that invoking /etc/init.d/polipo start from a root terminal would have a different effect from startup call.

Sorry,
Rainer