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-rw-r--r--tools/etc/frr/daemons5
-rwxr-xr-xtools/frrcommon.sh.in4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/etc/frr/daemons b/tools/etc/frr/daemons
index 8aa08871e..2427bfff7 100644
--- a/tools/etc/frr/daemons
+++ b/tools/etc/frr/daemons
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ pathd_options=" -A 127.0.0.1"
#
#MAX_FDS=1024
+# Uncomment this option if you want to run FRR as a non-root user. Note that
+# you should know what you are doing since most of the daemons need root
+# to work. This could be useful if you want to run FRR in a container
+# for instance.
+# FRR_NO_ROOT="yes"
# For any daemon, you can specify a "wrap" command to start instead of starting
# the daemon directly. This will simply be prepended to the daemon invocation.
diff --git a/tools/frrcommon.sh.in b/tools/frrcommon.sh.in
index 3c16c27c6..4f095a176 100755
--- a/tools/frrcommon.sh.in
+++ b/tools/frrcommon.sh.in
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ RELOAD_SCRIPT="$D_PATH/frr-reload.py"
#
is_user_root () {
+ if [[ ! -z $FRR_NO_ROOT && "${FRR_NO_ROOT}" == "yes" ]]; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+
[ "${EUID:-$(id -u)}" -eq 0 ] || {
log_failure_msg "Only users having EUID=0 can start/stop daemons"
return 1