107168 2005-09-25 05:30 0000 sci-mathematics/gimps, run mprime under safer user id 2007-05-11 08:03:45 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Applications unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P5 normal --- 1 smacklefunky@optusnet.com.au spock@gentoo.org smacklefunky@optusnet.com.au 2005-09-25 05:30:30 0000 Currently the init script for gimps runs the mprime as root, perferably this should be a user with less rights, like 'nobody' spock@gentoo.org 2005-11-06 05:41:10 0000 The option to run mprime as a non-root user has been added in -r1. Thanks for the suggestion :) bmintern@gmail.com 2007-05-10 21:37:48 0000 (In reply to comment #1) > The option to run mprime as a non-root user has been added in -r1. Thanks for > the suggestion :) Okay... this is a really old "bug", but I am now running mprime and I was wondering how to run it as non root. mprime -h says nothing about an option to control what user to run as. Looking at the files in /usr/portage/sci-mathematics/gimps/files/ I found a conf.d example which had USER="nobody" GROUP="nobody" This seemed like what I wanted, so I added it to /etc/conf.d/gimps and restarted it, and it is still running as root. Has the ability to run as non-root been removed, or am I just missing something? smacklefunky@optusnet.com.au 2007-05-11 08:03:45 0000 That should work how you have it. Check that the user and group you are setting to actually exist.. Otherwise I am not sure what you are doing wrong