lantz/mininet — comment on commit 85628d302581f7add88eca1e5602c6086932766b
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By lantz:

Ed can probably comment on his rationale, but I think the idea is for Mininet to in general run with user privileges except when it needs to be root. This seems like a good thing in general, except that it means that all privileged commands need to be run through sud

Another disadvantage is that unless you have password-less sudo then we'll get dozens of semi-clueless complaints on the mailing list, unless we check for it and give an error, and even if we do we'll still get complaints. (We already get posts like "how do I fix the error 'mininet must run as root?'")