Re: lowering uids, startup

From: Colin Percival (colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 10/25/01 

Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 07:53:12 +0100
To: Dave <mudman@R181172.resnet.ucsb.edu>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>

At 23:36 24/10/2001 -0700, Dave wrote:
>Are there any good, safe, secure ways to automatically start up third
>party services in really low privileged environments?

   Use the @reboot time setting in the user's crontab(5) file.

Colin Percival

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