pcs fails with "Error: Unable to authenticate against the local pcsd" when run by a non-root user who has been granted Pacemaker ACLs
Issue
- I gave a user account read permissions to the CIB via Pacemaker ACLs. But when they try to run
pcs status, they get the error shown below.
# pcs acl
ACLs are enabled
User: testuser3
Roles: read-only
Role: read-only
Description: Read access to cluster
Permission: read xpath /cib (read-only-read)
# su - testuser3
Last login: Thu Mar 4 11:47:44 PST 2021 on pts/0
[testuser3@fastvm-rhel-8-0-23 ~]$ pcs status
Warning: Unable to read the known-hosts file: No such file or directory: '/home/testuser3/.pcs/known-hosts'
Error: Unable to authenticate against the local pcsd. Run the same command as root or authenticate yourself to the local pcsd using command 'pcs client local-auth'
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (with the High Availability Add-on)
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