7 Running agent as root
Starting with version 4.4.2 systemd service file for Zabbix agent in
official packages (https://www.zabbix.com/download) was updated to
explicitly include directives for User and Group. Both are set to
zabbix.
This means that old functionality of configuring which user Zabbix agent
runs as via zabbix_agentd.conf file is bypassed and agent will always
run as the user specified in the systemd service file.
To override this new behavior create file
/etc/systemd/system/zabbix-agent.service.d/override.conf with the
following content.
[Service]
User=root
Group=rootReload daemons and restart zabbix-agent service.
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart zabbix-agentFor agent2 this completely determines the user that it runs as.
For old agent this only re-enables the functionality of configuring
user in zabbix_agentd.conf file. Therefore in order to run zabbix
agent as root you still have to edit zabbix_agentd.conf and specify
User=root as well as AllowRoot=1 options. More on this here:
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.0/manual/appendix/config/zabbix_agentd.