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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication
  4. Running MSDP services with the non-root user
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Running MSDP services with the non-root user

You can reduce the security risks by running the applications with the non-root user.

Starting from NetBackup 10.3, you can run MSDP daemons with the non-root user on NetBackup BYO (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE), NetBackup Appliance, and NetBackup media server on Flex Appliance.

The non-root user is the MSDP service user that is configured automatically in MSDP configuration file /etc/pdregistry.cfg after MSDP service user is changed. You are recommended to use the non-root user as the MSDP service user.

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