On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:30:01 +0100 Thomas wrote:
TA> > Can you expand on that? I think the original idea for changing
TA> > user/group was to have reduced privileges while running. The primary
TA> > advantage probably being that scripts and such wouldn't run as root.
TA> > It's still reasonable to expect that the agent's configuration files
TA> > would be owned by root, and not the non-privileged user.
TA> 
TA> But isn't it even more reasonable to expect that load/save of persistent 
TA> config would "just work" for an agent with agentuser/agentgroup defined? 
TA> AFAICS it currently doesn't (persistent config is created as root:root, 
TA> so it can't be saved by the lower-privileged agent) which I consider a bug.

I agree with that, but thing reverting to root to write the files is a better
option.

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