One thing to look out for with any RPM based installation is sometimes
the password file can get locked. /etc/password.lock ..If  you you
install something the appropriate users are not created. This by
chance happened to me once when installing heartbeat. Make sure that
is not the case.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Serge Dubrouski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Dejan Muhamedagic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Pacemaker:
>
>
> $ ps -ef | grep heartbeat
> root     12252     1  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: master
> control process
> root     12255 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: FIFO reader
> root     12256 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: write: mcast eth1
> root     12257 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: read: mcast eth1
> root     12258 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: write: ping
> 192.168.2.1
> root     12259 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: read: ping
> 192.168.2.1
> root     12262 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00
> /usr/lib/heartbeat/pingd -m 100 -d 1s
> hacluster      12263 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/ccm
> hacluster      12264 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:07 /usr/lib/heartbeat/cib
> root     12265 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:06 /usr/lib/heartbeat/lrmd -r
> root     12266 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/stonithd
> hacluster      12267 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/attrd
> hacluster      12268 12252  0 Jun02 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/crmd
>
>
>
> Heartbeat 2.1.3:
> $ ps -ef | grep heartbeat
> root     19776     1  0 Apr19 ?        00:00:15 heartbeat: master
> control process
> nobody   19778 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: FIFO reader
> nobody   19779 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:00:08 heartbeat: write: mcast eth1
> nobody   19780 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:01:12 heartbeat: read: mcast eth1
> nobody   19781 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:05:42 heartbeat: write: ping 
> 10.1.64.1
> nobody   19782 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:02:49 heartbeat: read: ping 
> 10.1.64.1
> root     19785 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:00:00
> /usr/lib/heartbeat/pingd -m 100 -d 1s
> hacluster       19786 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/ccm
> hacluster       19787 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/cib
> nobody   19788 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:03:59 /usr/lib/heartbeat/lrmd -r
> nobody   19789 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/stonithd
> hacluster       19790 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/lib/heartbeat/attrd
> hacluster       19791 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/crmd
> root     19792 19776  0 Apr19 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/mgmtd -v
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dejan
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>
>
>
> --
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