Yo Greg! On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:01:56 -0400 Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I agree, not so important. You gotta expext not to be able to drop
> > to user "nobody" unless you are already user "root. Which is why
> > the tests should be run as root.
>
> Yeah, but if they aren't run as root, they should notice that and not
> setuid. Not a big deal.
IMHO, as long as gpsd needs root to fully function, as documented, it
needs to warn when expected functionality does not work.
The message is there because users expected that gpsd to drop to user
nobody when run as a user.
So maybe this message could be rplaced with:
"ERROR: gpsd needs to be run as root you fool>".
RGDS
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