[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#686778: Bug#686778: xcp-xapi: what user should xapi run as

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Wednesday 05 September 2012 10:10 PM, Mike McClurg wrote:
> Unfortunately, with the way xapi is currently architected, we can't
> run it as a non-privileged user. Xapi itself makes calls to xenstore
> and to the hypervisor in too many places to split those bits out. In
> upstream xapi, we're working on splitting xapi into a few different
> daemons. When we finish this, we can package it for Debian such that
> only the daemon that makes xenstore calls and hypercalls is run as
> root.
> 
> Because I think that it is impossible to patch 1.3.2 such that it can
> be run by a non-root user, I think that we should mark this bug as
> invalid. Do you agree?

Okay!! I guess people could wait. Anyone sane will understand the risks
of logging as root. And will have workarounds.

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System

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