Motivation:
pbs_snapshot was only supported as being run by root user because it needed to capture protected data (like sched_priv, server_priv, etc.). This means that any automated script, PTL test or other program that wants to use pbs_snapshot was also needed to be run as root. So, making it non-root friendly removes this restriction.
Design Discussion:
http://community.pbspro.org/t/running-pbs-snapshot-with-sudo/786
Interface Changes:
New option to pbs_snapshot "--with-sudo":
- When provided, pbs_snapshot will use PTL's sudo infrastructure to run necessary commands and copy protected files via sudo.
- When using this option, the user doesn't need to run pbs_snapshot itself with sudo (i.e, no need to do "sudo pbs_snapshot ... "), or run it as root user.
- This option is turned off by default.
- If your sudo rules reject any of the commands being run with sudo by pbs_snapshot, it will log "ERROR" type log messages for them and move on to capturing whatever data it can.
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