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Re: Systemtap with no root required
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Systemtap List <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 13 Jul 2007 13:32:03 -0400
- Subject: Re: Systemtap with no root required
- References: <469771AD.4050209@redhat.com>
David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> writes:
> Here's the latest on being able to run systemtap without root
> privileges required.
Thanks!
> Here's a description of the current plan. There are 2 linux groups
> (feel free to suggest better names):
>
> "stapdev" - Systemtap developer, who can do anything with systemtap
This corresponds to the sudo empowerment whose support was removed as
a part of this patch. (One can still run "sudo stap ...", and the
code treats one as an stapdev.)
> I've attached a compressed patch which implements the above. [...]
It'd be almost easier to see the code in situ. Have you been
developing on a CVS branch? It's not too late!
> Anyone got any thoughts or comments?
On a first can, there seem to be a few odd bits in there. I'll go
through it again once I have patched files (on a branch?) rather than
the diffs.
- FChE