what are you trying to start up? something like an IRC server? in that case the only way I know of is to make the binary setuid On Wednesday October 24, 2001 05:29 pm, you wrote: > Hi again, > > How does one run a program from /etc/rc.d/rc.local as a normal user and not > as root? Thanks. Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup