diff --git a/src/web/drop_privilege_linux.go b/src/web/drop_privilege_linux.go
index 21810084f6e54f06b4cbfa7f745bf956fe43ae7b..d050fc55bb21be379fb5409f591f0817acf8accb 100644
--- a/src/web/drop_privilege_linux.go
+++ b/src/web/drop_privilege_linux.go
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ func (dropper *PrivilegeDropper) run() {
 	}
 }
 
-func InitializeDropper(execution_channel chan ExecutionInfo) error {
+func StartDropper(execution_channel chan ExecutionInfo) error {
 	server, err := user.Current()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
diff --git a/src/web/web.go b/src/web/web.go
index a27ed4f045e6c7fe04d30034ef5985c966f88c99..1e83c7926cdf529da49166ec831f433f3d00acce 100644
--- a/src/web/web.go
+++ b/src/web/web.go
@@ -661,12 +661,12 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	drop_queue := make(chan ExecutionInfo, user_number)
-	err = InitializeDropper(drop_queue)
+	err = StartDropper(drop_queue)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Fatal: cannot run privilege dropper: %s", err)
 	}
 	// run two droppers for more parallelism
-	err = InitializeDropper(drop_queue)
+	err = StartDropper(drop_queue)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Fatal: cannot run privilege dropper: %s", err)
 	}