ovs-ctl now takes --user option to start OVS daemons under the user
specified. This is a similar change in OVN to launch OVN daemons
under the specified user.
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <az...@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>
---
v1->v2: use USER[:GROUP] instead of USER in documentation.
---
ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl | 6 ++++++
ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl.8.xml | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl b/ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl
index 3e2ccf9..b49f37d 100755
--- a/ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl
+++ b/ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ set_defaults () {
OVS_RUNDIR=${OVS_RUNDIR:-${rundir}}
OVN_RUNDIR=${OVN_RUNDIR:-${OVS_RUNDIR}}
+
+ USER="root:root"
}
set_option () {
@@ -145,6 +147,7 @@ Options:
--ovn-northd-wrapper=WRAPPER run with a wrapper like valgrind for debugging
--ovn-controller-priority=NICE set ovn-northd's niceness (default:
$OVN_CONTROLLER_PRIORITY)
--ovn-controller-wrapper=WRAPPER run with a wrapper like valgrind for
debugging
+ --user=USER run as 'USER' (default: root:root)
-h, --help display this help message
File location options:
@@ -206,6 +209,9 @@ do
;;
esac
done
+
+set_ovs_user_group $USER
+
case $command in
start_northd)
start_northd
diff --git a/ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl.8.xml b/ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl.8.xml
index 89ad934..afceee9 100644
--- a/ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl.8.xml
+++ b/ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl.8.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
<p><code>--ovn-northd-wrapper=<var>WRAPPER</var></code></p>
<p><code>--ovn-controller-priority=<var>NICE</var></code></p>
<p><code>--ovn-controller-wrapper=<var>WRAPPER</var></code></p>
+ <p><code>--user=<var>USER[:GROUP]</var></code></p>
<p><code>-h</code> | <code>--help</code></p>
<h1>File location options</h1>
@@ -47,4 +48,7 @@
<p><code># ovn-ctl start_northd</code></p>
<p><code># ovn-ctl start_controller</code></p>
+ <h2>Run as the ovs user and group</h2>
+ <p><code># ovn-ctl --user=ovs:ovs start_controller</code></p>
+
</manpage>
--
1.8.3.1
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