Re: [pcp] pmlogconf including proc metrics?

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> ...
> OTOH, with the authentication code now working, we should install the
> proc pmda by default (in a secure mode; in src/pmdas/linux_proc/contexts.c
> proc_ctx_access(), use uid/gid=nobody if ! CTX_USERID.
> 

"nobody" has a bit of an existential crisis, and is actually somebody
in some situations ... e.g.

nobody    4270     1  0 Jul18 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq 
--strict-order --bind-interfaces 
--pid-file=/var/run/libvirt/network/default.pid --conf-file= --except-interface 
lo --listen-address 192.168.122.1 --dhcp-range 192.168.122.2,192.168.122.254 
--dhcp-leasefile=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.leases --dhcp-lease-max=253 
--dhcp-no-override

I was thinking we could just simply give back EPERM for those proc
metrics which are per-process (which is not all of proc.*), in the
case where no userid/groupid has been made available to pmdaproc
(I haven't coded this bit yet though, IIRC).

cheers.

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Nathan