Yes. Only root is allowed to change the kernel flow tables, for example.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:00:34PM -0700, Aishwarya wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Using OVS_RUNDIR works for me. But are you saying running vswitchd as non > root will cause other issues in the functionality? > > Thanks, > Aish > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
