Wednesday, September 30, 2009

SuperoDoctorII Debian SNMPD

When installing SuperoDoctorII (a sensor-reading utility for SuperMicro boards) and setting up SNMPD, Debian runs snmpd as an unprivileged user. sd_extension requires root. Editing /etc/default/snmpd and removing the '-u nobody' section from the command will fix this (quickly).

Ideally, one would setuid=root on sd_extension so snmpd would continue to run unprivileged.

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