Running sabnzbd as a different user

[Rumbles]

Hi, I have been trying to set sab up as a different user, I have it running fine as either root or my own user, but if I run it as user sabnzb it fails:

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sudo service sabnzbdplus start
 * Starting SABnzbd+ binary newsgrabber                                                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sabnzbdplus", line 1678, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/sabnzbdplus", line 992, in main
    res, msg = config.read_config(inifile)
  File "/usr/share/sabnzbdplus/sabnzbd/decorators.py", line 31, in newFunction
    return f(*args, **kw)
  File "/usr/share/sabnzbdplus/sabnzbd/config.py", line 652, in read_config
    CFG = configobj.ConfigObj(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1230, in __init__
    self._load(infile, configspec)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1237, in _load
    h = open(infile, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini'
                                                                                                            [fail]

The user has group privlidges to the file:

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ll /home/username/ | grep sab
drwxrwxr-x  4 stock admin  4096 2012-03-12 00:21 .sabnzbd/

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sudo grep sabnzb /etc/group
admin:x:113:username,username2,sabnzb
sabnzb:x:1005:

I would log in as that user and try running it and see what happens but I have forgotten the password. Do I ened to do this or can I try something else? If I have to log in as this user can I just delete the password from the apssword file and create a new one?

[sander]

Most easy way: reset the unknown password with "sudo passwd <username>". Then login as that user and run sabnzbd to see if it works. If so, you can fill out that user in /etc/default/sabnzbdplus

[Rumbles]

Thanks sander, when I log in as sabnzb I get the following:

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 sabnzbdplus
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sabnzbdplus", line 1678, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/sabnzbdplus", line 985, in main
    os.makedirs(sabnzbd.DIR_LCLDATA)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 150, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/sabnzb'

Any ideas?

[jcfp]

These are simply a permission problem. The relevant user needs at least +x on the entire directory chain, write access to the ini and that dir. Also, if you created a new user specifically for sab, make sure the user actually has a home dir (at system level) set and that it exists with proper permissions.