[CRIU] CRIU needs root privileges?

[Adrian Reber]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:38:42PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote:
> 
> If you go back through recent posts, you'll see that as part of one question,
> I also asked about whether CRIU should need to be run as root.  In my tests,
> it could not take a checkpoint if I did not use sudo.
> 
> Should that be the case?  Or is it something about my jobs?

As far as I remember there has been an effort to run CRIU as non-root,
but currently you need to run CRIU as root. There are definitely still
some things missing in the kernel to have CRIU run as non-root.

> Also, are there risks to setting up CRIU as setuid-to-root?

There are always risks running anything as setuid ;)

		Adrian