From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from balrog.mythic-beasts.com (balrog.mythic-beasts.com [46.235.227.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23858370 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:41:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [81.107.239.51] (port=47784 helo=[10.2.7.117]) by balrog.mythic-beasts.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bMYey-0001B2-89 for users@dpdk.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:41:56 +0100 To: users@dpdk.org References: <577E798F.9070700@jezuk.co.uk> From: Jez Higgins Organization: Jez UK Ltd, 34 Forest Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 9DH. Registered in England & Wales, number 03071591 Message-ID: <578377F3.3000106@jezuk.co.uk> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:41:55 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <577E798F.9070700@jezuk.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BlackCat-Spam-Score: -28 X-Mythic-Debug: Threshold = On = X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Running DPDK as non-root X-BeenThere: users@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: usage discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:41:57 -0000 On 07/07/16 16:47, Jez Higgins wrote: > Is it possible to get DPDK up and running as non-root - if so, can > anyone guide me to what I'm missing? Or should I be giving this up as a > bad job? Thanks to everyone who replied - all very helpful. We've poked around further here and now spinning up as root, but setgid/setuid once DPDK intialisation is complete. That seems to satisfy both DPDK on the one side, and our clients on the other :) Jez