topic cortexuser in Linux Agent in Cortex XDR Discussions

cortexuser in Linux Agent

Abdul_Razaq — Mon, 03 May 2021 06:14:07 GMT

Hi Community,

Anybody has any information on the user 'cortexuser' created while installing cortex in Redhat Linux ?, What this user used for and which folders are owned by this user

Thanks in advance

Re: cortexuser in Linux Agent

Abdul_Razaq — Thu, 06 May 2021 09:27:26 GMT

Hi Community,

Anybody has any info on this cortexuser ? what privilege this user has and the folder owned by this user

Re: cortexuser in Linux Agent

Abdul_Razaq — Sun, 16 May 2021 10:40:18 GMT

Hi Community,

Got below informations on the cortexuser,

-The user is automatically created with the new agents , earlier PA had a trapsanalyzerd1,trapsanalyzer2 etc. That has been updated with newer agent version to ‘cortexuser’.
It is used to run analyserd and lted services on the XDR agent. This user has the rights to perform necessary action required on /opt/traps directory.