On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:05:57PM -0700, Aishwarya wrote:
> ovsdb-server gives an option to specify the ctl socket path with --unixctl
> option. So, this and specifying the pid file path make it possible to run
> this from a non-root account or without sudo. Is there a way that
> ovs-vswiitchd can also be run without sudo? Right now, I get this error:
> ovs-vswitchd: could not initialize control socket
> /usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.20342.ctl (Permission denied).

You can specify the OVS_RUNDIR environment variable.

There are other reasons that ovs-vswitchd normally requires root, so
it might not help.
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