I just recently encountered Subsonic and I totally love it.
After doing the standard installation with the debian package on my Ubuntu server I noticed that the 'java' process that was running the server was launched by the root user. This kind of gave me the heeby-jeebies and I wanted alter the installation to run as another user.
First step is to install everything as normal using the .deb package.
Now make another user (called subsonic in this case):
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sudo useradd subsonic
We now have to give this user ownership of all the subsonic data:
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cd /var/subsonic/
sudo chown -R subsonic:subsonic .
I had a problem where mine would crash when trying to write to /tmp because there was already data there, you could just change the permissions as above, but I just deleted it.
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cd /tmp
sudo rm -rf subsonic/
The last step is to edit the script which is run on startup. It lives at:
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/usr/share/subsonic/subsonic.sh
Open it as root (or using sudo) with your favorite editor. Near the bottom of the script change:
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${JAVA} -Xmx${SUBSONIC_MAX_MEMORY}m \
to
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sudo -u subsonic ${JAVA} -Xmx${SUBSONIC_MAX_MEMORY}m \
That's it, restart the service
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sudo service subsonic restart
To me I think it should be done this way by default for security reasons. I may have missed some details, but it's working for me at the moment. (Note that if you use the uploading feature you will need to make sure the subsonic user has write permissions wherever you want to upload.)
EDIT:
I guess this has been posted earlier, almost identically.