Re: [Condor-users] Invalid user: root

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Unable to find the user to run Condor daemons as. Please specify it using 
> the --owner option
>
> Now, I want Condor to run daemons as root, so I try:
>
> ./condor_configure --owner=root
>
> And I get back:
>
> Invalid user: root

Condor will run as root, but it prefers to do most operations as non-root, 
and only switch to the root user for things that must be done as root. This 
is for security.

You are selecting the non-root user that it will switch to. Many people 
create a 'condor' user on their system. condor_configure selects the condor 
user or the daemon user or nothing if it can't find either one. I'm 
surprised that you don't have the daemon user on your system--is that 
really the case? If not, the condor_configure may have a bug.

-alain