[tesla-dev] powertop and root user

[Alexander Kolbasov]

Li, Aubrey <aubrey.li at intel.com> wrote:

    Aubrey> Eric.Saxe wrote:

    >> Alexander Kolbasov wrote:
    >>> Why does powertop should be run as root? If I have enough
    >>> privilidges to run dtrace shouldn't I be able to run powertop as
    >>> well? 
    >>> 
    >> Yes, dtrace privileges should be enough.
    >> 
    >> -Eric

    Aubrey> er..., device driver suggestion and action need root to touch the system
    Aubrey> configuration file, like /etc/power.conf ......

Probably, but for just monitoring there is no real need, so it should
allow running as non-root.

- akolb