Running MONyog as an unprivileged user
 

By default, MONyog runs under the 'root' account in Linux. This may be a security nightmare for some.

Here's how you can create and use a user account exclusively for running MONyog:

• First add a new user and group; replace <GID>, with the group ID, and <PASSWORD>:

    # groupadd monyog

    # useradd -g <GID> -p <PASSWORD> monyog

• Copy the original files to the new location and change the file ownership.

    # cp -r /usr/local/MONyog /home/monyog

    # chown -R monyog:monyog /home/monyog

• Next, we need to change the initialization script. Be sure to make a backup first!

    # cp /etc/init.d/MONyogd /etc/init.d/MONyogd.orig

    # vi /etc/init.d/MONyogd

• Change the following lines for the new path.

    PREFIX="/home/monyog"

    MONYOGBIN="$PREFIX/bin/MONyog"

• Also you need to update the start command to the following.

    # Start MONyog.

    ...

    else

    action "`su - monyog -c \"$MONYOGBIN -s\"`" /bin/true

    fi

• Now you need to alter the configuration file.

    # vi /home/monyog/MONyog.ini

• Change the data path to the new directory.

        Data_path=/home/monyog/data

After this you should be able to start MONyog running as an unprivileged user.

    # service MONyog start