Cannot run pm2 as another user

[anutting]

pm2d version         : 3.2.2
node version         : 8.12.0

pm2 start ecosystem.config.js --uid node --env production has now all of a sudden given the error: uid must be an integer. I am the root user and this has been working all along.

I've also tried:
pm2 start ecosystem.config.js -u node --env production : doesn't do anything, process is owned by root.
pm2 start ecosystem.config.js --uid $(id -u node) --env production : same error uid must be an integer
pm2 start ecosystem.config.js --uid 1003 --env production : same error uid must be an integer

god daemon is running as root and PM2_HOME is set a /home/node/.pm2

[Unitech]

In the ecosystem.config.js, can you declare the user under the user attribute; like that:

 module.exports = [{
      "name": "electron",
      "script": "./node_modules/.bin/electron",
      "args": "./electron",
      "user": "envision",
      "time": true,
      "max_memory_restart": "1000M",
      "restart_delay": "10000",
      "env": {
        "ENVISION_ENV": "production",
        "DISPLAY": ":0"
      }
    }]

[Unitech]

uid must be an integer? this is weird, please upgrade pm2:

$ npm install pm2@latest -g
$ pm2 update

You should not get this must be an integer error

[ksemaev]

@Unitech I use latest pm2 v3.5.0 and get the same must be an integer:

root@ip:~# pm2 start /etc/price/ecosystem.config.js --uid 1009
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/root/.pm2
[PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
[PM2][WARN] Applications exodus-pricing-server-backend not running, starting...
[PM2][ERROR] Process failed to launch The "options.uid" property must be of type int32. Received type string```

[ksemaev]

@Unitech also adding "user": "price", does not change anything, it still runs under root