Improve warning about using 'sudo' in agent unprivileged mode #1198
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Closing in favour of #1200 |
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| IMPORTANT: On Linux systems, when you install {agent} using the `--unprivileged` flag, because the agent is in unprivileged mode, all {agent} commands that you run should not be prefixed with `sudo`. | ||
| Including `sudo` in a command may result in <<agent-sudo-error,an error>> due to the agent not having the required privileges. |
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Should we add something like:
Installing {agent} still requires
sudo.
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Good idea. I've added that in as part of #1200
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From the discussion in #1197, the warning about
sudoing Elastic Agent commands when agent is running inunprivilegedmode needs to be more clear.Here's the updated version: