Hi,

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:09:15AM -0600, Serge Dubrouski wrote:
> There was this question already but I don;t recall what was the
> answer. Heartbeat used to run lrmd, stonithd and some other heartbeat
> daemons as nobody user. Pacemaker runs them as root. Why is that?
> Isn't it the downgrade from security point of view?

Both lrmd and stonithd drop privileges themselves. Where did you
observe that they run as root? BTW, there was a bug in cl_log
(see LF 1871) which would raise privileges back. That bug has
been fixed in April this year (cs: fce950f0fcc8). That's
post-2.1.3.

Thanks,

Dejan
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