Author: Alek Barsky <abarsky AT rci.rogers DOT com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:57:04 -0400
Hi Everybody! I am running NetView on AIX. NetView ver 7.1.2 and AIX 4.3.3. I want to be able to fully administer NetView application as a non-root user. The idea is to create "netview" user and conf
Author: "Stephen Hochstetler" <shochste AT us.ibm DOT com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:38:16 -0500
Alek, There have been some previous discussions about this. Check the archive for "root". The short answer is "no". You would need to make the netview userid have uid of 0 for this to potentially wor
Author: Alek Barsky <abarsky AT rci.rogers DOT com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 17:03:34 -0400
There is a lot of the political pressure within organization to make it happen. It looks like it is "possible" to do without using "uid" 0, however I am not sure what will be "hidden" application def
It says all over the Admin Guide that you will need root authority to perform certain tasks. I will leave it to you to find them. This is in keeping with the UNIX OS security which requires you to be
Author: "IMHOFF,MICHAEL (HP-Denmark,ex1)" <michael_imhoff AT hp DOT com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:28:52 +0200
I'm not sure what it takes. I think you'll have a really hard time getting the daemons running as non-root whereas the GUI should be possible. I suggest that you look at hardening the platform in ste