Modifying the user Zabbix runs as

[cronuscronus]

Recently I started deploying Zabbix in our corporate environment. A user was created for me to run Zabbix as. This user was "flzabbix".

Unfortunately there is no option in the zabbix server or proxy configuration to run as a different user! Hopefully this is resolved in a future release.

To fix this simply change the user name in the following files after you run ./configure [options]

configure:
int
main ()
{

char *user = "flzabbix"; <--- change this to your new runtime user
initgroups(user, 0);

;
return 0;
}

configure.in:
[
char *user = "flzabbix"; <--- change this to your new runtime user
initgroups(user, 0);
],


src/libs/zbxnix/daemon.c
char user[9] = "flzabbix"; <--- change this to your new runtime user
*** Remember this is C and you must appropriately size the char array based on the length of your new runtime user.

Now make install and Zabbix will run as the proper user.