Running script or command as non-root user in OpenWrt

[lleachii]

You finally ask:

@Ser9ei

and the last action is provide possibility to run any applets/scripts under the new user (non-root).

after than, please read again topic question

• We don't control your binary program (which still exists on an OS created with only root as the user).
• If you're asking for an example of a program that does what you ask:

@reinerotto

Having had similar issues like yours, I was setting user root; in nginx.conf
I replaced usual /etc/init.d/nginx with my private, simple one

So, yes it's possible.

• If you don't mean in source code, then see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid