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Sylvain Lebresne updated CASSANDRA-12641:
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Priority: Minor (was: Major)
> False positive when checking if the user is root
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> Key: CASSANDRA-12641
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12641
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Matt Wringe
> Priority: Minor
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> 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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