How to start a Spotfire Server service with a non-root user during booting on a Linux server

1). Login to the Linux server with root privilege.

2). Run the command: chmod 4755 /bin/su

This command will turn on set-uid bit, so that it always runs with root permissions. Otherwise, when an ordinary (non-root) user runs it, it will not have access to the password information in /etc/shadow. Contact your system administrator for more information.

 

3). Browse to '/etc/init.d/' directory.

4). Search for a file named 'spotfireserver-<version>' or 'tss-<version>' and edit it. Replace <version> with the Spotfire version. (For 14.0.5 it would be spotfireserver-14.0.5 ).

5). Initialize a variable named RUNAS in the above script file.

 

For example, to run the service with a user "spotfireuser", add the following line at the top of the file.

    RUNAS="spotfireuser" 

 

6). Make sure this user is the owner of the Spotfire Server installation directory and has all required privilege to read/write/execute the installation files.

 

Note: In the Linux environment, port number 0-1023 are not allowed to be access by non-root users. If any of these ports are used for Spotfire, make sure that port is configured to be used by non-root user.