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Re: [pcp] PCP Updates: pmlogger AF_UNIX socket for normal users; qa vers

To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Brolley <brolley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] PCP Updates: pmlogger AF_UNIX socket for normal users; qa version check bump
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:29:37 -0400 (EDT)
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Thread-topic: PCP Updates: pmlogger AF_UNIX socket for normal users; qa version check bump

----- Original Message -----
> > [...]  Checking for just the same uid should suffice for
> > full-access.  I think we'll also need to allow uid==zero, else we'll
> > need to not risk breaking init scripts.
> 
>  Maybe just leave such policies to the config files instead of hard-coding.

It needs to Just Work, by default, and in a backwards compatible way.

There is no need for any extension to configuration files to support
this, it is unneeded complexity (and will require additional coding,
testing, bug fixing later ... for no added value whatsoever).

cheers.

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Nathan

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