Yes, by default gmond and gmetad run under the nobody account.
*Please do not make nobody have root permissions.* The nobody account is
kind of the grab bag where all untrusted applications should go. If you
need to run alien programs, it's a good place to start running them as
nobody, since it can do little-to-no harm to your system (ideally no
harm).
It may be possible to have it run as a privileged user, maybe a new user
"ganglia"?
What is your reason for wanting root privs? There are usually other ways
around it than giving the default privilege-less account "nobody" super
privileges. If not, I'm guessing a patch to the source code would be in
order to get it not to run as nobody.
-adam
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 05:44 -0600, Vikrama H T wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is gmond/gmetad run as user nobody?
>
> Can we give root permission for user nobody ?
>
> Or is there an way that we can make gmond/gmetad to run as root.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Vikrama
>
>
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