Run Homebridge with elevated privileges?

[michis0806]

Simple n00b-question: how do I run homebridge with "elevated privileges"?

[KhaosT]

sudo homebridge
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 3:42 PM michis0806 [email protected] wrote:

Simple n00b-question: how do I run homebridge with "elevated privileges"?

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[ooii]

But, how to start the homebridge service on ubuntu with elevated privileges?
I know I should ask the question on the homebridge repo but maybe you faced the issue and can help.

In my case, if I run sudo homebridge, everything is fine. But if I start the service with service homebridge start, it hangs at:

Load homebridge-amazondash.AmazonDash
Load homebridge-camera-ffmpeg.Camera-ffmpeg
Load homebridge-edomoticz.eDomoticz

Note that the other plugins work perfectly if I don't use the amazondash one and without sudo.

Here is my init.d/homebridge file:

dir="/home/user/.homebridge"
cmd="DEBUG=* /home/user/.npm-global/bin/homebridge"
user="root"

name=`basename $0`
pid_file="/var/run/$name.pid"
stdout_log="/var/log/$name.log"
stderr_log="/var/log/$name.err"

get_pid() {
    cat "$pid_file"
}

is_running() {
    [ -f "$pid_file" ] && ps `get_pid` > /dev/null 2>&1
}

case "$1" in
    start)
   ...

Thanks.

[bobvann]

Actually, you may just give capabilities.

If you run the following command from root, you won't need root permission to use pcap.

setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip /usr/bin/node