Startup Application – How to Run in Another Workspace

A startup system agnostic method. You can use this in /etc/rc.local, a /etc/init.d/... script, an Upstart configuration file and probably a systemd configuration too.

sudo -u oli /full/path/to/application

This command will run as the root user and sudo will drop down to the "oli" user. Obviously change the user and the command for your purposes.

I should add that there are at least a dozen ways of doing just this... But in my experience they're all largely identical in effect. Here's an upstart example using its setuid stanza:

start on (filesystem and stopped udevtrigger)
stop on runlevel [06]

setuid oli
respawn

exec /full/path/to/application

You should add your script to the runlevel defaults:

sudo touch /etc/init.d/noip2
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/noip2
sudo update-rc.d noip2 defaults

Then add this into /etc/init.d/noip2

####################################################### 
#! /bin/sh 
# . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions  # uncomment/modify for your killproc 
case "$1" in 
start) 
echo "Starting noip2." 
/usr/local/bin/noip2 
;; 
stop) 
echo -n "Shutting down noip2." 
killproc -TERM /usr/local/bin/noip2 
;; 
*) 
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}" 
exit 1 
esac 
exit 0 
####################################################### 

Then restart and your script will be running.