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Does Beagle require root to run?

April 26, 2017beagle require run

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Does Beagle require root to run?

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No. In fact, since 0.0.10 the Beagle Daemon will refuse to run as root. The daemon is designed to handle per-user indexing. This is why it’s run as the user, and why it only indexes home directories.