[AMBARI-21379] Ambari Agent doesn't start as non-root user with "ambari-agent start" logged in as root

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.2
• Assignee: Andrew Onischuk
• Reporter: Andrew Onischuk
• Created: 30/Jun/17 08:23
• Updated: 05/Jul/17 12:17
• Resolved: 30/Jun/17 11:55

Description

When running Ambari Server and Agents as non-root user, If I logged in as
root, then agent process doesn't start with user mentioned in run_as from
ambari-agent.ini when I run "$ambari-agent start" whereas running "$service
ambari-agent start" launches the agent process with run_as user.

Ambari Server doesn't show this behaviour when logged in as root and running
commands "$ambari-server start" or "$service ambari-server start" always start
with non-root user.

Locally tested with Ambari 2.4.2.0 version

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