Thanks. I understand the rationale now.
The 'permission denied" makes sense.
However, "mode must be 600" is a strange error message. I think
"tcsd must be run as root" would be clearer.
Rajiv Andrade <[email protected]> wrote on 03/02/2011 05:02:55 PM:
>
> It is, the tcsd.conf has security sensitive information that affects
> trousers, for example the integrity log source and pcrs.
> Therefore we don't want it to be accessible by random users. Athough the
> TCSD should be launched as root, it drops
> its privileges after, for example, reading tcsd.conf, setting its UID to
> tss', an user with much lower system access.
>
> On 03/02/2011 03:22 PM, Kenneth Goldman wrote:
> > I wonder if this is 'working as designed'. I'm trying to run tcsd as
> > a normal user. As a general rule, I try to be root as little as
> > possible.
> >
> > The first try reported:
> > TCSD ERROR: fopen(/etc/tcsd.conf): Permission denied
> >
> > Sure enough, the protection was 600. When I changed it to 644, I got:
> > TCSD ERROR: TCSD config file (/etc/tcsd.conf) must be mode
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