You're right, running "su" is simple. The main problem was to make httpd and mysql run at startup - an that's what they do now. Thanks.
Jannis
What do you gain by this? Running "su - <enter root password> is simple and quick and all you need to start services. If the user has root rights - as having UID/GID 0 - it makes no differences. Even working with a user account which has root rights too is dangerous!
To start up services like Apache and MySQL at startup run:
chkconfig --list httpd chkconfig --list mysqld This tells you at which runlevels these services are already active. To activate a service at specific runlevel do i.e.:
chkconfig --level 3 httpd on
Alexander
