maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 228519] sysutils/beats should probably run a specific `beats' user

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Bug 228519: sysutils/beats should probably run a specific `beats' user
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228519



--- Description ---
the *beats daemons should probably not run as root

Running as nobody is not correct since the daemons own files in
/var/db/beats/*beat. Hence the correct way is probably to create a `beats' user
and ditto group. That way, admins can allow the beats group read access to log
files that are not world readable, for example. 

Thoughs on this?

Palle