On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:23:40 +0200 Thomas wrote:
TA> is there a good reason to *not* set NETSNMP_DS_AGENT_NO_ROOT_ACCESS
TA> (i.e. imply the "-r" option) if the agent is run as a *non-root* user
TA> (through either "-u" option, "agentUser" token or setting
TA> NETSNMP_DS_AGENT_USERID)?
Not that I can think of.
TA> What's even more odd is that if
TA> he uses the "agentUser" token, there's not even a corresponding config
TA> token to specify NETSNMP_DS_AGENT_NO_ROOT_ACCESS.
There are probably lots of disconnects between the two. Sometimes it just
doesn't make sense, and this might be one of those cases. Check the code flow,
and it may be that by the time a 'noRoot' config token was parsed, it's too
late.
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