[CASSANDRA-15549] NativeLibrary recommends to run Cassandra as root but users should not

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-alpha4, 4.0
• Component/s: Local/Other
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/958aa790ecfc36927f213325918099f822d38b00

Test and Documentation Plan

Unit

• Assignee: Ekaterina Dimitrova
• Reporter: David Capwell

Authors

Ekaterina Dimitrova

Reviewers

David Capwell

• Created: 05/Feb/20 17:52
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:54
• Resolved: 26/Feb/20 16:33

Description

NativeLibrary recommends users to run Cassandra as root, should remove that since users really shouldn’t be running Cassandra as root.

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-8142 prevent the command "cassandra start" from starting a cluster