FTR. (I didn't look in "src:collectd" when looking for the bug.) —octo
----- Forwarded message from Florian Forster <o...@collectd.org> ----- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:54:24 +0100 From: Florian Forster <o...@collectd.org> To: Andrew Yates <734...@bugs.launchpad.net> Cc: colle...@verplant.org Subject: Re: [collectd] [Bug 734179] collectd runs as root unnecessarily Hi Andrew and Sebastian, On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 02:39:06PM +0100, Sebastian Harl wrote: > With this E-mail, I'm also submitting this as wishlist bug report to > the Debian BTS and I'm going to fix it in my next upload. I would have liked to answer to that bug as well, but couldn't find it on bugs.debian.org. Am I missing something? On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 07:04:39AM -0000, Andrew Yates wrote: > (It might also be a good idea to run collectd as an unprivileged user > by default. A quick test suggests that of the default plugins only > 'df' may require root privileges.) In the vast majority of cases, the "df" plugin doesn't need privileges. The only problematic case I can think of right now is if some file system is mounted at "/secret/foo" and the unprivileged user isn't allowed to read "/secret". Plugins which do require privileges can be found in the collectd wiki in the "Plugins requiring privileges" category [0]. Regards, —octo [0] <http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Plugins_requiring_privileges> -- Florian octo Forster Hacker in training GnuPG: 0x0C705A15 http://octo.it/ _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list colle...@verplant.org http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Florian octo Forster Hacker in training GnuPG: 0x0C705A15 http://octo.it/
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