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

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Feb 24 12:24:10 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:28:05AM +1100, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:41 PM, neha chatrath <nehachatrath at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> "su - otheruser" in the resource agent
> have a look in the existing agents for how they do it

Maybe we should add a "user" option to the ocf_run() helper?

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