Oops, looks like there are options in gmond.conf and gmetad.conf for
users.
In gmond.conf, in the globals{} section, put this line:
user = ganglia
Or if there's already a user = nobody entry, change it to somebody else.
And in gmetad.conf, uncomment the line:
#setuid_username "nobody"
and change the user, of course.
Sorry about that.
-adam
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 08:15 -0400, Adam Gray wrote:
> 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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