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[Veritas-bu] nonroot users - xbpmon

2000-04-25 12:28:05
Subject: [Veritas-bu] nonroot users - xbpmon
From: Scott Stanton scotts AT stratech DOT com
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:28:05 -0400
Rob,

Also, you might want to check the mount options on the /usr mount point
and make sure that you DON'T have the NOSUID (or that you do have the
setuid) option.  This option on the mount point will nullify (is that a
word?) all of the setuids that you have. 

Scott

Rob Worman wrote:
> 
> Riddle me this...
> 
> two nbu masters (patched NBU 3.2 running on solaris).  Nonroot folk (i.e.
> members of the "ops" group) are currently slated to watch monitor ongoing
> backup status via xbpmon.
> 
> On one server (which set up) I did a chmod/chgrp and all is well.  On
> another server (which I did not set up), an ops login IS able to start up
> xbpmon, but the GUI then displays zero job info.  If I run xbpmon as root,
> I see all the data I normally expect.
> 
> What am I missing here?
> 
> 1. I've checked permissions on the xbpmon binary
> 
> #which xbpmon
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/xbpmon
> # ls -l /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/xbpmon
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root    other    36 Mar  9 13:15
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/xbpmon -> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/xbpmon
> #ls -l /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/xbpmon
> -r-sr-x---   1 root    ops 2269664 Jan 17 18:17 blah blah
> 
> 2. I've verified group membership for the operator account
> 
> operator@backupserver % id
> uid=1005(operator) gid=102(ops)
> operator@backupserver % groups
> ops
> 
> can someone point out my error?
> 
> thanks
> rob
> 
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