[Openstack-devel] Safe access to /etc/nova/nova*.conf from Ceilometer

[Thomas Goirand]

Hi Julien,

I wrote what begins to take shape as a Ceilometer package. But I'm
facing a small problem. Ceilometer needs to access
/etc/nova/nova-compute.conf and /etc/nova/nova.conf, which it can't,
because it is running as ceilometer user, and doesn't have access to
these files.

So I am wondering, should Ceilometer components run as root? Or should I
add the Ceilometer in the nova group? What's the strategy?

Thomas