Hi Lukasz,
There are several Tier 3 sites where the system administration (OS etc) is separate from the
experiment software administration. Thus one needs to be able change configurations on the fly.
this is not possible without root priv if root ownes the configuration files. One possible solution
would be to have a separate rpm that can be run to change the ownership to the same account that runs
the xrootd service. This way the original rpms installs everything with root ownership, but the separate
rpm can make the change with a proper switch.
Doug
Lukasz Janyst wrote:
> 2011/6/6 Brian Bockelman <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Let's make this a switch someone can throw in the RPMs at build time then: certainly it's not a recommended practice.
>
> Yeah, I will do this if it's really necessary but I would like to
> avoid having too many build switches because I would then have to
> build and distribute the packages with all the possible switch
> configurations. I would prefer to drop this altogether. Doug, do you
> really have a use case that depends on this? It seems to be very
> far-fetched.
>
> Lukasz
