Réf. : Running TSM Server under a different userid to root.

Hi Eric

We did this a few years ago. We were tired of calling up the sysadmins every 
time we wanted to do a simple task (Like bounce the TSM server...). Here is a 
list of files
in the /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin directory that we changed the ownership :

adsmserv.licenses
adsmserv.lock
dsmaccnt.log
dsmlicense
dsmserv.dsk
dsmserv.opt
nodelock
rc.adsmserv

All your dbvols, logvols and diskpool volumes will have to be changed also. As 
well as any file class volumes. This has worked great for us. When you do an 
upograde, the
only file that has given us problems is the license file. But the error is 
pretty obvious in the actlog.

Guillaume Gilbert
Conseiller - Gestion du stockage
CGI-Desjardins
TEL.:  (514) 281-7000 ext 3642
Pager:   (514) 957-2615
Email : guillaume.gilbert AT cgi DOT com
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Eric Winters <ewinters AT AU1.IBM DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 2003-05-23 00:42:45

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Objet :     Running TSM Server under  a different userid to root.

Dear TSMers,

Does anyone out there have any experience of running TSM on AIX with a
userid different to root? I'm not talking about using sudo to run dsmserv,
but changing the ownership of /usr/tivoli/tsm/server and below to a 'tsm'
userid, and changing the permissions of db volumes, log volumes and storage
pool volumes similarly.

The reason for this is that my system administrators would prefer not to
implement sudo. Is anyone actually doing this. Are there any gotchas?
Shared memory won't work, but I'm not using that anyway, and I guess I'll
have to change the permissions back after every upgrade - but are there any
other issues? Of course I can run a test, but I'd like to avoid being
bitten by something unforeseen further down the track.

If it works this would be quite attractive.

Thanks as always for your feedback,

Eric Winters
Sydney Australia