pulp-consumer sometimes needs be run as root

Add notes to user-guide/nodes for users who may have skipped the consumer-client documentation. closes pulp#2808 https://pulp.plan.io/issues/2808
daviddavis · Jun 14, 2017 · 33a8dc6 · 33a8dc6
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diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Barnaby Court (bcourt@redhat.com)
 Patrick Creech (pcreech@redhat.com)
 David Davis (daviddavis@redhat.com)
 Michael DeHaan (mdehaan@redhat.com)
+Elijah DeLee (kdelee@redhat.com)
 Jay Dobies (jason.dobies@redhat.com)
 Filip Dobrovolny (fdobrovo@redhat.com)
 Máirín Duffy (duffy@redhat.com)

diff --git a/docs/user-guide/consumer-client/nodes.rst b/docs/user-guide/consumer-client/nodes.rst
@@ -89,3 +89,7 @@ be synchronized to the child node.
   --repo-id - (required) unique identifier; only alphanumeric, -, and _ allowed
 
 .. note:: Only activated nodes and enabled repositories may be specified.
+
+.. note:: The **pulp-consumer** command line client must be executed with enough permissions 
+    to write system-level configuration and credential files. If permission errors are 
+    encountered, you may need ``root`` privileges.
diff --git a/docs/user-guide/nodes.rst b/docs/user-guide/nodes.rst
@@ -498,6 +498,10 @@ On the Pulp server to be used as the child node:
  $ pulp-consumer node bind --repo-id pulp-goodness
 
 
+.. note:: The **pulp-consumer** command line client must be executed with enough permissions 
+    to write system-level configuration and credential files. If permission errors are 
+    encountered, you may need ``root`` privileges.
+
 Anywhere Using Admin Client
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^