Allow the runner to be run by a non root user

[andycockerill-cpi]

In relation to #64 can functionality be added to allow the runner to be run by a non root user. We have a requirement for this that I'm sure is not all that unusual, where we need a non root user to do build tasks. We are not using Docker to build, but running in the EC2 instance.

I understand that the startup script is run as root, but there must be a way to tell the script to run the GitHub runner service as a different user.

[kpturner]

I think this is because the action runs ./run.sh to start the listener so it is doing so within the user data execution - which runs as root.

If the user data code did this:

./svc.sh install
./svc.sh start

then it would run as a service and not as root.

Ideally we would need the code to change or for an input override to the action to ask for this different way of starting the listener.

[kpturner]

Something like this: #122

[Preen]

Any news on this?

[Flyingliuhub]

Any news on this?

[kpturner]

Click on the link in my comment above