On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Andrew Beekhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 20:43, Serge Dubrouski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Here is some additional info from the log file:
>>
>> heartbeat[5555]: 2008/06/18_14:38:16 info: respawn directive: root
>> /usr/lib/heartbeat/lrmd -r
>> heartbeat[5556]: 2008/06/18_14:38:18 info: Starting child client
>> "/usr/lib/heartbeat/lrmd -r" (0,0)
>> heartbeat[5569]: 2008/06/18_14:38:18 info: Starting
>> "/usr/lib/heartbeat/lrmd -r" as uid 0  gid 0 (pid 5569)
>>
>> Why would it start a child process as root?
>
> particularly for the lrmd - it must be run as root in order to be able
> to run the RAs.

On old systems it drops own privileges to "nobody" and still can
control all those things, don;t know how.

> mounting filesystems, adding ip addresses... all these things require
> root privs.
>
> presumably there is a reason for stonithd to be root as well.
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