How to run a command as a specific user in an init script?

Question

I\'m writing an init script which is supposed to execute a single command as a user different than root. This is how I\'m doing it currently:
sudo -u username comm

Answer 1

For systemd style init scripts it's really easy. You just add a User= in the [Service] section.

Here is an init script I use for qbittorrent-nox on CentOS 7:

[Unit]
Description=qbittorrent torrent server

[Service]
User=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/qbittorrent-nox
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target