Matt Wringe created CASSANDRA-12641:
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Summary: False positive when checking if the user is root
Key: CASSANDRA-12641
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12641
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Matt Wringe
Cassandra will fail to start if it thinks its running as the Root user. It does
so by checking if the users uid or gid is 0:
https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/bin/cassandra#L269
The problem is that a gid of 0 doesn't really mean anything in terms of
security. It does not mean that the user has root privileges or any other
special permissions.
If you are running in an environment where the group id is 0 (such as certain
containerized environments) then you can run into this false positive and have
to add the -R option to by pass the check.
It would be nice to be able to just run Cassandra in these environments without
having to add the -R option.
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