Commits on Sep 14, 2020

1. Clarify use for shared_credential_file (#20929) …

   When starting beats as a service, the PID will be owned by the user that manages the service. This would be root in most cases. Users tend to run tests as non-root, running beats directly (./metricbeat) on the command line. Without the shared_credential_file path the beat checks for credentials under the user's home directory. When starting beats as a service, the home directory of the user managing the service (typically root) is different than what was being used in testing and development, which can be hard to figure out.
   
   (cherry picked from commit cbed0d6)

   

   kostasb authored and kaiyan-sheng committed Sep 14, 2020
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