Running rabbitmqctl as non-root/rabbit user

[Remy 'Sieben' Leone]

Hello,

I'm using rabbitmq 3.6.6 on a ubuntu 16.04 installation.

Is there a way to run rabbitmqctl as a non-root user? For instance, using a group or something similar?

I've tried to add a user to the rabbitmq group, log out and in again and I still get:

Only root or rabbitmq should run rabbitmqctl

What are the authorization that are granted to users that belong to the rabbitmq UNIX group? 

Best regards

Rémy

[Michael Klishin]

It needs to read the Erlang cookie file from $HOME of effective RabbitMQ user and open a client socket to connect to epmd on the target node. Not much else. It is an administrative tool so Debian and RPM packages require sudo privileges but other installation methods do not.

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[Michael Klishin]

Also, some commands may need to access node database files directly (if the --offline flag is used). Again, does not require root privilegies per se but may require effective user switching).

On 21 Nov 2016, at 20:35, Remy 'Sieben' Leone <remy....@gmail.com> wrote:

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