Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:21:10AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: >> This series attempts to introduce the ability to start and use >> Open vSwitch 'out of the box' as a non-root user. It does this by >> modifying the service files to pass the recently introduced --ovs-user >> argument around, and by making some minor tweaks to the passwd, group, >> and filesystem information. >> >> The more controversial changes are: >> >> * This adds another config file (/etc/sysconfig/openvswitch-pre) to the >> system >> * The dpdk support directly modifies /dev/hugepages with a call to chmod >> * A new user 'openvswitch', and up to two new groups 'openvswitch', and >> 'hugetlbfs' are created >> >> This is presented as RFC (v0, since it will likely need changes) for >> initial feedback. >> >> Aaron Conole (4): >> rhel: allow arbitrary user:group >> fedora: dynamically allocate ovs user >> fedora: Also include the db lockfile >> fedora: allow dpdk to also run as non-root user > > I guess that we are waiting for Flavio to look at this?
I think so. I'm planning on rebasing this because I think some things in the spec files have changed, and I think Timothy R. is also doing some change, and his is less "intrusive". _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
