[Idea] rootless with optional sudo support

[sebastianschauenburg]

Your idea

If I understand correctly, the agent requires root permissions (e.g. runs as root).

As a feature request, I would want to ask to consider a rootless approach.
This could be implemented by using sudo for the parts which actually really require root.
And/or perhaps making the parts which require root permissions, optional.

[g-bougard]

Hi @sebastianschauenburg

yes, it actually requires to run as root on unix/linux and as Administrator on windows. It does so as many inventory data is only available in that context. And, as glpi-agent is a fork of fusioninventory-agent, it historically does like that since the beginning (more than 15 years ago).

I don't think it's a good idea to change that logic today. It would require a lot of changes and I'm sure users will complain about everything this can involve.

Of course we could probably make the root mode remain the default and have a rootless one choose by option. But there's a huge work behind to achieve such an option.

So can you clarify why you think it's a good idea ?