deluge/ui/web/web.py |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/deluge/ui/web/web.py b/deluge/ui/web/web.py
index a2b5765..3d9f1c6 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/web/web.py
+++ b/deluge/ui/web/web.py
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
 #
 
 import os
+import pwd
+import grp
 
 from deluge.ui.ui import _UI, UI
 from optparse import OptionGroup
@@ -59,6 +61,15 @@ def __init__(self):
         group.add_option("-f", "--fork", dest="fork",
             help="Fork the web interface process into the background",
             action="store_true", default=False)
+        group.add_option("-P", "--pidfile", dest="pidfile", type="str",
+            help="Use pidfile to store process id",
+            action="store", default=None)
+        group.add_option("-U", "--user", dest="user", type="str",
+            help="User to switch to. Only use it when starting as root",
+            action="store", default=None)
+        group.add_option("-g", "--group", dest="group", type="str",
+            help="Group to switch to. Only use it when starting as root",
+            action="store", default=None)
         group.add_option("-p", "--port", dest="port", type="int",
             help="Sets the port to be used for the webserver",
             action="store", default=None)
@@ -103,6 +114,19 @@ def start(self):
             # use that may prevent a filesystem unmount.
             import deluge.configmanager
             os.chdir(deluge.configmanager.get_config_dir())
+
+        if self.options.pidfile:
+            open(self.options.pidfile, "wb").write("%d\n" % os.getpid())
+
+        if not deluge.common.windows_check():
+            if self.options.group:
+                if not self.options.group.isdigit():
+                    self.options.group = grp.getgrnam(self.options.group)[2]
+                os.setuid(self.options.group)
+            if self.options.user:
+                if not self.options.user.isdigit():
+                    self.options.user = pwd.getpwnam(self.options.user)[2]
+                os.setuid(self.options.user)
         
         import server
         self.__server = server.DelugeWeb()