Resloved: [Condor-users] Invalid user: root

[Trevor Roose <tlroose@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks,

I did have a condor user created; for some reason it didn't recognize it 
by default, but using '--owner condor' works fine.  The documentation 
was perhaps a little unclear to me on this issue.  It was clear that I 
should install Condor with root permissions, but it wasn't clear how one 
went about that.  I knew that if I installed as an unprivileged user it 
obviously wouldn't have root permissions, but then the documentation 
said that the --owner flag was only valid for root installations.  Silly 
me thought the --owner flag was a way to specify permissions other than 
root during a root installation, not that it specified an alternate user 
that Condor would run as when root access was not necessary.

Thanks again for your incredibly prompt response,
Trevor

Alain Roy wrote:

> > 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
>
>
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