Re: [Nolug] Specifying what user a linux daemon should run as?

I'm not seeing a vmware user on the system. How can you see what user a
process is running as?

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net>
wrote:

> Try adding a vmware user into the root group.
> If I remember correctly, vmaware runs as it's own user.....
>
> Petri
>
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > In linux, how do you tell it what user you want a daemon to run as?
> >
> > I'm having issues with vmware in linux, with a tape drive. I need to
> > map a scsi tape drive into a vm, but the vm doesn't have access to
> > /dev/sg0. I can go chmod 777 the /dev/sg0 and it works perfect, but
> > as soon as I reboot it goes back to 660 and an owner of root/root.
> > So, how can I ensure that vmware is either running as root (yeah,
> > probably a bad idea) or make sure that the permissions stick for that
> > device?
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