Re: [Linuxptp-users] Support for dropping root privileges: follow up

[Martin P. <pec...@fe...>]

Hi Patrick,

> The use case is: we have a bunch of slave clocks that we would like
> to monitor by running pmc on each (+ snmp eventually). If this feature
> would allow running pmc without sudo, it would provide an elegant
> solution.

I proposed to linuxptp-devel on 29 March patch ([PATCH] UDS: added 
option to set file mode for the created socket. 
<https://www.mail-archive.com/lin...@li.../msg05540.html>). 
This patch would allow you to explicitly set the file mode of the 
created socket. That would be an alternative (and easier) solution than 
the patch implementing dropping root privileges.

There is, however, ongoing discussion about the implementation on 
linuxptp-users (Config section for /var/log/ptp4lro creates an 
additional port 
<https://www.mail-archive.com/lin...@li.../msg02694.html>). 
We haven't yet settled on the ideal implementation of the feature.

Martin