A pacemaker alert logs the following log event: `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'`

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Issue

  • A pacemaker alert logs the following log event (alert script is running pcs commands as the hacluster user):

    Sep 28 12:59:57 rhel8-1 pacemaker-execd[585724]: notice: alert_file[1612437] error output [ 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 Server 7, 8 (with the High Availability Add On)

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