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

Though, strangely, this works for me.  That is, at startup the agent
rewrites persistent store as root/root, then it changes to
agentuser/agentgroup, then on shutdown it has no problem rewriting.


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