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Subject: Re: chpst: $USER and $HOME
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Nicholas J Humfrey wrote:

> What is the best practice for setting $USER and $HOME when running "chpst -u 
> notroot". I have a service which requires $USER and $HOME to be set 
> correctly.
>
> At the moment I am just manually setting them prior to the final exec.

Which works just fine, doesn't it?

Often (usually?) $HOME and $USER don't need to be set.