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.
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