The Landscape Client generally runs as a combination of the root and
landscape users. It is possible to disable the administrative features of
Landscape and run only the monitoring parts of it without using the root
user at all.
If you wish to use the Landscape Client in this way, it's recommended that you perform these steps immediately after installing the landscape-client package.
Edit /etc/default/landscape-client and add the following lines:
RUN=1
DAEMON_USER=landscape
Edit /etc/landscape/client.conf and add the following line:
monitor_only = true
Now you can run sudo landscape-config as usual to complete the configuration
of your client and register with the Landscape service.
To run the full test suite, run the following command:
make check
When you want to test the landscape client manually without management features, you can simply run:
$ ./scripts/landscape-client
This defaults to the landscape-client.conf configuration file.
When you want to test management features manually, you'll need to run as root.
There's a configuration file root-client.conf which specifies use of the
system bus.
$ sudo ./scripts/landscape-client -c root-client.conf
Before opening a PR, make sure to run the full testsuite and lint
make check3
make lint