Re: stop a service as a non root user

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

On 2013-07-02 01:46, Nestor Urquiza wrote:

Hi folks,

We run monit as root which is specially important for Apache service.

Monit controls tomcat servers which run under a different user.

As a non root user I want to to be able to run 'monit tomcat stop' so that I can manage the service the way I would do without monit.

We can issue "service tomcat stop" but of course monit restarts it again.

AFAIK,

$ su - $AN_USER $A_COMMAND would do it

Or, alternatives:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6905697/how-to-run-script-as-another-user-without-password

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RMA.