"zfs list" as non-privileged user?

[Tai-hwa Liang]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> I recognize that under FreeBSD 7 a simple "zfs list" as non-root just
> results in:
>
> | rse$ zfs list
> | internal error: failed to initialize ZFS library
> | rse$ _
> 
> Is this really intentional or just a bug?

   Is this non-root user in 'operator' group?

> This for instance prevents non-privileged users to run my snapshot(8)
> frontend (see http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/snapshot/)...
>
> | rse$ snapshot list
> | Filesystem          User   User%     Snap   Snap%  Snapshot
> | rse$ _
>
> ...although there are actually snapshots (this time run as root):
>
> | root# snapshot list
> | Filesystem          User   User%     Snap   Snap%  Snapshot
> | /j/tot               1GB   17.1%      3MB    0.0%  hourly.2
> | /j/tot               1GB   17.1%   1024KB    0.0%  hourly.1
> | /j/tot               1GB   17.1%   1024KB    0.0%  hourly.0
> | /j/en                2GB   27.1%      2MB    0.0%  hourly.2
> | /j/en                2GB   27.1%      2MB    0.0%  hourly.1
> | /j/en                2GB   27.1%      2MB    0.0%  hourly.0
> | root# _

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Cheers,

Tai-hwa Liang