user

Documentation

Overview

Package user provides helpers to change the user of the process.

Index

• func DatadogAgentToRoot() error
• func IsRoot() bool
• func RootToDatadogAgent() error

Functions

func DatadogAgentToRoot

func DatadogAgentToRoot() error

DatadogAgentToRoot changes the user of the process to root from the Datadog Agent user.

func IsRoot

func IsRoot() bool

IsRoot returns true if the process is running as root.

func RootToDatadogAgent

func RootToDatadogAgent() error

RootToDatadogAgent changes the user of the process to the Datadog Agent user from root. Note that we actually only set dd-agent as the effective user, not the real user, in oder to escalate privileges back when needed.