[chef] Re: Is it possible for the chef server to run as a non-root user?

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Hmm, I see our Chef 10 server processes running as "chef" user and our
Chef 11 running as "chef_server" user. I don't see root user running
any Chef Server processes anywhere.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Stephen Corbesero
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> If so, is there documentation for how to do it?
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