Li, Aubrey <aubrey.li at intel.com> wrote:
Aubrey> Eric.Saxe wrote:
>> Alexander Kolbasov wrote:
>>> Why does powertop should be run as root? If I have enough
>>> privilidges to run dtrace shouldn't I be able to run powertop as
>>> well?
>>>
>> Yes, dtrace privileges should be enough.
>>
>> -Eric
Aubrey> er..., device driver suggestion and action need root to touch the
system
Aubrey> configuration file, like /etc/power.conf ......
Probably, but for just monitoring there is no real need, so it should
allow running as non-root.
- akolb
