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On 18.3.2010 16.58, Auke Booij wrote: |
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> 2. Per-user daemons. Currently, there are some daemons, like |
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> PulseAudio, jackd, several download daemons, and soon possibly X.org |
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> (which will no longer need to run as root, and really should run as a |
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> normal user), which run as specific users, instead of root or a |
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> systemwide daemon-specific user. There is currently no framework for |
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> launching these daemons at all, and the current solution is to either |
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> make users figure out their own solution (a popular one is an extra |
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> line in .xinitrc), or to set the username in some conf.d file, thus |
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> disabling the possibility to run several of them for different users. |
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> I would like to develop an extension to our current init.d system |
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> which will enable users to write and start their own init scripts, |
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> which at first only run as themselves, not as another user. This would |
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> make it possible to cleanly launch several identical daemons for |
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> several users. This project would involve either writing a new |
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> additional init.d system, or extend our current system. I would like |
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> to know 1. if you guys are understanding a word of what I'm saying at |
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> all 2. if this would be an interesting idea (I think it is, of course) |
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> 3. anyone has any ideas or would like to mentor me. |
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Isn't this something that should be handled by the upstream projects |
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instead of doing it at the distribution level? Also see: |
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http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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