running arlad as a user besides root

[Artur Grabowski]

Chris Wing <wingc at engin.umich.edu> writes:

> Arla drinkers:
> 
> I've been playing around with making as many daemons as I can run as
> unprivileged users, instead of root. I've made a patch to arla that lets
> you specify a user name to switch to on the arlad command line.
[...]
> (the one necessary hack was making the xfs kernel module grant
> fhopen privileges to any uid that opened a xfs device)

Well, granting fhopen privileges to arlad is the same as making it able to
gain root (almost). And some systems implement their own fhopen making this
option even less useable.

//art