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 deficiencies?
What can potentially go broken if NetView is running as non-root user?
Thanks for the help.

Alek Barsky.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hochstetler [mailto:shochste AT us.ibm DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:38 PM
> To: Alek Barsky; nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
> Subject: Re: [nv-l] Run NetView/6000 as non-root user
> 
> 
> 
> 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 work.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Stephen Hochstetler              shochste AT us.ibm DOT com
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