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Subject: Re: Netview Security Question...
From: Jon Needes <jon.needes@ATS.UK.EDS.COM>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:36:05 +0100
Reply-to: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
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Gord Michaels wrote:

> Thanks Jon.
>
> But the strange thing is that I get the Netview GUI (without the Security
> prompt) but I do not have an of my SrAdmin privilages ??
>
> Any ideas what would cause this ??
>
> Gord.
>
> >From: Jon Needes <jon.needes@ATS.UK.EDS.COM>
> >Reply-To: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
> >        <NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
> >To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> >Subject: Re: Netview Security Question...
> >Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 16:57:30 +0100
> >
> >Gord Michaels wrote:
> >
> > > Hello All.
> > >
> > > I am running Netview V5.1 with Security turned ON.
> > >
> > > Sometimes when I log into Netview under my Netview ID (belongs to Srdmin
> > > group) I do not get a security prompt but still get the Netview GUI
> >anyway.
> > >
> > > Can anyone explain this ??
> > >
> > > Gord.
> > >
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> >You can run nvauth and log in without running NetView. If you do not logout
> >before you close nvauth you can subsequently run the NetView GUI without
> >logging in again. When you exit from NetView it will log you out. You might
> >have run nvauth in order to run nvsec_admin for example and then left
> >yourself
> >logged in. I do not know of a way to kill the NetView GUI without it
> >logging
> >you out but you may have found one.
> >
> >We have used the fact that you can run nvauth and pass it a userid and
> >password in the command line to write our own security front end which
> >records
> >who has logged in for our own application among other things.
> >
> >Jon Needes
> >EDS, Hook, UK
> >
>
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I have no ideas so I hope someone else can answer.

Here is a suggestion if it happens again- while NetView is still running open
another window as root. Run /usr/OV/bin/nvauth and log in as a user with
sufficient privileges to run nvsec_admin, then run nvsec_admin. Under
Options..Query All it will show you who is logged into NetView and what group
they belong to. I have just tried this and it did show two people logged in,
one the user running NetView.  This may give you some clue what is going.

We are also running NetView 5.1 at the moment and have problems with nvsecd
dying. Are you running a script which restarts it when it dies - could this be
a cause of the problem? I cannot say as we have not bothered to do this yet.

Jon Needes
EDS, Hook, UK

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