RE: [NV-L] Root access
2007-05-11 19:35:48
OK, the missing third leg is that "sudo
bash" (not just plain sudo) on Linux does me quite well at putting me in a
shell as root. "su -" and "sudo su -" do the same thing.
Sorry for the sloppy detail. Thanks for the correction Leslie.
Bill
Dave, if you can su - or sudo su -
then you are ok. You are as root as you
need to be.
If you try to administer
Netview with sudo in front of every command, however, you can usually get away
with it on AIX, but on Linux you will have problems due to important libraries
being dropped by the sudo command. But once you are in a shell as root,
you are alright.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark IT Services Specialist, Network
Mgmt Information Technology Services Americas IBM Global Services (248)
552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager
"Evans, Bill"
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I don't think there is a technical explanation or a problem.
It's just some fuzzy wording left over from long ago when only "root" had
"root" authority. It's been a couple months since we put a test instance
of NV 7.1.5 in place on RH 4 and my memory may not be working well, but as I
remember it ... The character string "root" is meaningless. The
authority is the key. I log into the system where NetView will reside with
my normal user connection then so a SUDO to get administrator (root) authority,
change directory to where I've copied my media from the disks (
/usr/NV_media/NV-Base-715/BASE_CD/NetView) and proceed to issue the "./instalnv
-k SERVER [-u] [-q]" command.
"Real soon now" we'll be putting 7.1.5
into production. It's been working well on the test machine. Our
system support group is busily removing unused packages and tying up security
threads on the RH 4 install so we can proceed. Bill Evans
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Hi
All,
Can someone please provide me a technical explanation as to why you need
to be logged on as 'root' to install Netview? I currently have a new
Solaris 10 box that Im going to load Netview 7.1.5 on and my Unix team does not
want to give me the root password. They have given me 'sudo root' and with sudo
you already have the same level of access as the Unix Systems Administrators and
can grab a root shell as needed. The only location the root user can log
into a server is on the serial console. Ssh into the server as root and
running the su command will not work per the ITRM Unix security template.
Thanks,
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