Remove broken options runoptions.uid and runoptions.gid #5261
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These were meant to allow dropping privileges in Packetbeat, but they no longer worked for a good while (since Golang 1.4). As shown in elastic#3542, a better way of running Packetbeat as a non-root user is to use capabilities: setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip packetbeat Closes elastic#3542.
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These were meant to allow dropping privileges in Packetbeat, but they no longer worked for a good while (since Golang 1.4). As shown in elastic#3542, a better way of running Packetbeat as a non-root user is to use capabilities: setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip packetbeat Closes elastic#3542. (cherry picked from commit 9a3ab3f)
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These were meant to allow dropping privileges in Packetbeat, but they no longer worked for a good while (since Golang 1.4). As shown in #3542, a better way of running Packetbeat as a non-root user is to use capabilities: setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip packetbeat Closes #3542. (cherry picked from commit 9a3ab3f)
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elastic#5309) These were meant to allow dropping privileges in Packetbeat, but they no longer worked for a good while (since Golang 1.4). As shown in elastic#3542, a better way of running Packetbeat as a non-root user is to use capabilities: setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip packetbeat Closes elastic#3542. (cherry picked from commit 7fd75b5)
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These were meant to allow dropping privileges in Packetbeat, but they no longer
worked for a good while (since Golang 1.4). As shown in #3542, a better way
of running Packetbeat as a non-root user is to use capabilities:
Closes #3542.