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When your universal forwarder runs as root, should all of your apps run as root?

campbellj1977
Explorer
‎03-09-2015 07:49 AM

If so, does that mean your deployment server should run as root also? It keeps deploying client apps as "splunk"

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dflodstrom
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‎03-09-2015 02:59 PM

Best practice is to run splunk as a user other than root.

If your universal forwarder is running with root/admin privileges you shouldn't have any issues with communication between it and your indexer.

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