hyperic/sigar — Issue #13: network info
Author: retr0h
Created: 2012-02-10 00:28:06+00:00
State: open

Is there any reason sigar needs privileged access to gather network information?
I currently use ohai, and when ohai is run as a non-privileged user, no network information is returned.

facter (http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/facter/) gathers similar interface information, but does not need to run as a privileged user.

Before I dig too deep into this, is this by design? It does not appear ohai does anything other than defer to 'sigar' for this data.

Thanks -
John