Re: cfengine on OS X

[Tim Nelson]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Atom Powers wrote:

> How easy it is to use a built-in non-root account for cfengine, or to
> create one?

	Depends what you mean.  If you mean for editing the config files, 
that's easy; I do that.

	If you want to run eg. cfagent as a non-root user, then you will 
only be able to perform actions that that user can perform.  To my mind, 
this wouldn't be very practical.

        :)


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