palantir/README.md
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## Power monitoring permissions
In recent kernel versions, precise power monitoring is only accessible to root users to prevent using it as a side-channel attack.
In order to get the power monitoring output you'll need to give the palantir user access to this data using the following steps.
- Create a group using
```bash
sudo groupadd powermonitoring
```
- Create `/etc/udev/rules.d/99-powermonitoring.rules` with
```udev
SUBSYSTEM=="powercap", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/chgrp -R powermonitoring /sys%p", RUN+="/bin/chmod -R g=u /sys%p"
SUBSYSTEM=="powercap", ACTION=="change", ENV{TRIGGER}!="none", RUN+="/bin/chgrp -R powermonitoring /sys%p", RUN+="/bin/chmod -R g=u /sys%p"
```
- Apply the udev rules
```
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger
```
- Add your user to the group
```
sudo usermod -a -G powermonitoring palantir
```
- Verify that you can read energy usage
```
sudo su - palantir -c 'cat /sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl:0:0/energy_uj'
```