Running OpenFire as a different user

Question

I have a Ubuntu 10.4 system on which I'm running OpenFire but it currently runs as root. How can I make Openfire run as a different user?

Thanks

How did you do the install? I don't have an OpenFire device handy to look, but if I remember correctly, the .deb installation created a user for the service. — Shane Madden, Aug 23 '11 at 15:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 16 '12 at 09:05

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I restart openfire nightly with a cron, so you should also be able to use this:

sudo -u other_username /home/openfire/bin/openfire start

answered Feb 16 '12 at 09:05

Dag

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 23 '11 at 10:44

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Not completely sure about OpenFire, however something like su user openfire should work.

answered Aug 23 '11 at 10:44

Fionn

Openfire is a chat server, you don't start something like that manually. – Sven Aug 23 '11 at 10:45

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