Starting OpenRC based init script as unprivileged user

majoron

Dear all,
I'm having troubles to find a way to start an OpenRC service as a normal user.
I have written a simple init script to run a service that does not require root privileges. However when I try to start the service as non-root, I get:

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 12:55 pm Post subject:

I would assume the logging and tracking of this service is why openrc wants root. Do you need the logging/tracking or can you live without it and simply not use openrc?

Otherwise you should simply just use "sudo" or something to run these scripts...
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lexflex

Hi,

It depends on what you are trying to achieve:
The usual way (as far as I know) is that the service is started by root.
You can still run the services as another user. You can indicate this in the init file using the -u option:

schorsch_76 · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2012 Posts: 452

I have managed such an issue with sudo

in /etc/sudoers i added my script "/etc/init.d/something" and allowed it to espesially one user.

The "problem" is that openrc keeps track of the running Services. This update in ist tree needs root privileges. It is a seperate issue than the rights, that your service process needs

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majoron · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:33 pm Post subject:

Thank you for the answers. I think some more info is needed...
I'm developing a service in a TDD fashion. There is a daemon doing its job, and at the end of the day the daemon should run as root in production. But I wanted to write some functional tests to check things from the user perspective, including the control of the daemon process through an OpenRC script. For the tests I would like to run as non-root.

So, I guess I need to play sudo to do the tests. Right?

Any other suggestions or comments would be welcome.
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

sudo would be easiest - if you really have to run it under OpenRC. You could also run a process supervision tool as a regular user which might be easier (not to mention more portable).

majoron · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:21 pm Post subject:

steveL · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 3:39 pm Post subject:

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cord · Guru Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 346

Hi Averyone, I don't want to start new topic because this one is match to my issue.
I need to restart my net.eth0 often enough (networking lags). I want to make applet at desktop panel for that (so I would restart eth0 by one mouse click).
I added to /etc/sudoers this line (using visudo; user = john):

depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3530

john@localhost ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
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eccerr0r · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 4:34 pm Post subject:

Probably should have started a new thread, it's different enough... But anyway, don't forget to add "sudo" before the init script...

$ sudo /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
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cord · Guru Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 346

Ooops! I hadn't noticed the Elephant.

Thanks. And sorry for different issue.