Re: Running slapd as a non-root user

[Dave Horsfall <daveh@coreng.com.au>]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> > > Is there a recommended way to do this?
> > 
> > Start it as root, and use the "-u" and "-g" flags; this is the
> > recommended  (if not the only) way to do it.
> 
> His example clearly shows he's already using -u, so I'm guessing this 
> was already figured out.

Sure, but I was responding to the general question.

I guess I should point out that FreeBSD comes with a start-up script as 
part of the package/port, which makes all the resources accessible by 
"ldap".

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