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Bug 1791388

Summary:	Launch ovn daemons as non-root user
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath	Reporter:	Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli>
Component:	ovn2.11	Assignee:	Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jianlin Shi <jishi>
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Version:	FDP 20.A	CC:	ctrautma, mmichels
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Last Closed:	2020-03-10 10:07:57 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Timothy Redaelli 2020-01-15 17:22:11 UTC

Currently ovn daemons runs as root user, but this is not good for security point of view

Comment 2 Jianlin Shi 2020-02-04 09:30:45 UTC

run as root on ovn2.11.1-20:

[root@hp-dl380pg8-12 bz1788456]# ps aux | grep ovn-n                                                  
root     41485  0.0  0.0  59600  1152 ?        S<s  04:28   0:00 ovn-northd: monitoring pid 41486 (healthy)
root     41486  0.0  0.0  60000  2216 ?        S<   04:28   0:00 ovn-northd -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info --ovnnb-db=unix:/run/openvswitch/ovnnb_db.sock --ovnsb-db=unix:/run/openvswitch/ovnsb_db.sock --no-chdir --log-file=/var/log/openvswitch/ovn-northd.log --pidfile=/run/openvswitch/ovn-northd.pid --detach --monitor

run as non-root on 2.11.1-32:

[root@hp-dl380pg8-12 bz1788456]# ps aux | grep ovn-n
openvsw+ 41705  0.0  0.0  61764  1188 ?        S<s  04:29   0:00 ovn-northd: monitoring pid 41706 (healthy)
openvsw+ 41706  0.0  0.0  62128  2348 ?        S<   04:29   0:00 ovn-northd --user openvswitch:hugetlbfs -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info --ovnnb-db=unix:/run/openvswitch/ovnnb_db.sock --ovnsb-db=unix:/run/openvswitch/ovnsb_db.sock --no-chdir --log-file=/var/log/openvswitch/ovn-northd.log --pidfile=/run/openvswitch/ovn-northd.pid --detach --monitor

[root@hp-dl380pg8-12 bz1788456]# ps aux | grep ovn-con
openvsw+ 42032  0.4  0.0 283892  3848 ?        S<sl 04:30   0:00 ovn-controller unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info --user openvswitch:hugetlbfs --no-chdir --log-file=/var/log/openvswitch/ovn-controller.log --pidfile=/var/run/openvswitch/ovn-controller.pid --detach

[root@hp-dl380pg8-12 bz1788456]# rpm -qa | grep -E "openvswitch|ovn"
ovn2.11-host-2.11.1-32.el7fdp.x86_64
openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy-1.0-14.el7fdp.noarch
ovn2.11-central-2.11.1-32.el7fdp.x86_64
openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el7fdp.x86_64
ovn2.11-2.11.1-32.el7fdp.x86_64

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-10 10:07:57 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:0750