Running beeond as a non-root user

[srstsavage]

We are experimenting with beegfs and beeond and are trying to reason how to run beeond as a non-root user. Does any official guidance or advice on running beeond in a non-root environment exist?

Looking at the beeond source, there are several commands used (e.g. mount) that are normally only allowed for root/sudo. If a script option was added to execute those commands using sudo, it should be possible to run beeond using sudoers rules granting the non-root user permissions for the relevant commands (and also restricting the mount command as needed etc). Would the maintainers be open to a pull request on the beeond script adding optional sudo support?

Any other relevant advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you.