[Pacemaker] How to run heartbeat and pacemaker resources as a non-root user

[neha chatrath]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.
I have been successfully using Heartbeat as a root user.
But I have a system requirement for which I need to run my different custom
applications  (configured using crm)  as a non root user.
Can this be done?

Regards
Neha Chatrath

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:05:30 +1100
From: Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net>
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Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] How to run heartbeat and pacemaker resources
       as a non-root user
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:39 PM, neha chatrath <nehachatrath at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to run heartbeat and pacemaker resources as non-root users.
> When I try to run heartbeat as a "hacluster" user,

That probably wont work.  We already try to drop as much privilege as
we can, but some processes need to be root or that can't do anything -
like add an IP address to a machine.

> it fails to run with the
> following error:
>
> "Starting High-Availability services: chmod: changing permissions of
> `/var/run/heartbeat/rsctmp': Operation not permitted
> Done. touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/heartbeat': Permission denied"
>
> I have tried changing ownership and permissions for the above directories
> and files but still the same result.
>
> Can somebody help me in this?
>
> Thanks and regards
> Neha Chatrath


On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:09 AM, neha chatrath <nehachatrath at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need to run heartbeat and pacemaker resources as non-root users.
> When I try to run heartbeat as a "hacluster" user, it fails to run with
> the following error:
>
> "Starting High-Availability services: chmod: changing permissions of
> `/var/run/heartbeat/rsctmp': Operation not permitted
> Done. touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/heartbeat': Permission denied"
>
> I have tried changing ownership and permissions for the above directories
> and files but still the same result.
>
> Can somebody help me in this?
>
> Thanks and regards
> Neha Chatrath
>
>
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