[ovs-dev] [PATCHv2] rhel: if rpms were built without libcapng then let processrs to run as root

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Tue Apr 16 19:36:51 UTC 2019


On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:27:59PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote:
> Otherwise, Open vSwitch will fail to start with the following
> error "libcap-ng is not configured at compile time" when it
> attempts to downgrade to Open vSwitch user.
> 
> Also, if packages were built in a way where processes are
> supposed to be running only as root, then there is no point
> in creating "openvswitch" user in the first place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka at ovn.org>

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>

s/processrs/processes/ in the subject.

Aaron Conole's comments seem reasonable too but I think that they can be
treated separately.


More information about the dev mailing list