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

Adding this answer as I had to lookup multiple places to achieve my use case. I had a script that runs on startup. This script runs process as a specific (passwordless) user and is running on multiple linux flavors. Here are options on different flavors: (I have taken java as target process for example)

1. RHEL / CentOS 6:

source /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
daemon --user=myUser $JAVA_HOME/bin/java

2. RHEL 7 / SUSE12 / other linux flavors where systemd is used:

In your systemd unit file add:

User=myUser

3. Suse 11:

/sbin/startproc -u myUser $JAVA_HOME/bin/java