[tesla-dev] powertop and root user

[Li, Aubrey]

Alexander Kolbasov wrote:

> 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

device driver suggestion and action is a part of powertop.
when it detects the system configuration is tunable for power saving,
it will give a method to the user to do it. so, root need to touch
configuration
file. Do you have a better idea?

Thanks,
-Aubrey