Re: rc and login classes

[Edgar Pettijohn <edgar%pettijohn-web.com@localhost>]

On 07/07/17 15:11, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
> Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
> > Look at rc.subr. it calls su to start the daemon. Look at the
> > manual for rc.subr I think there are some variables you could add
> > to the rc.d script to change the behavior.
> I only see su -m user -c ... in rc.subr. It's not the same as su -c class user.
>
> $ man su
> ..
>       When a -c option is included after the login name it is not a su option,
>       because any arguments after the login are passed to the shell.  (See
>       csh(1), ksh(1) or sh(1) for details.)  To execute arbitrary command with
>       privileges of user username, execute:
>
>             su username -c "command args"
I think you can do the following in rc.conf:

tor_cmd="su -c class -m user -c 'sh -c /path/to/tor args'"

obviously change class, user, and the correct path.