I can personally resist the urge to create more ;-). Yet other users of the
GUI will explore the available options. I can provide guidelines such as
"don't do that", but was hoping for a more technical method of preventing
it. I will open a call with support.
Thanks,
Karin
-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: New map sort of created - cannot delete it.
>I was not using security when I made mine either. It happened when I
>tested the global map permissions (the -G of ovwperms). I did not expect
>it to leave that bit of trash around. It looks to me like the way to
prevent it
>is to not try it (save map as.. or create.. from a user without r/w
permissions
>on the map database). In fact, maybe you would like to be the one to call
>support and see if they will accept an apar on it. With 5.1.2 shipping,
maybe
>they are looking for new bugs to fix? I would wait until hurricane Floyd
moves
>out to sea, though. Raleigh was shut down today as a precaution.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Leslie A. Clark
>IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
>
>
>
>
>Leslie,
>
>Thanks. mapadmin -f <name> removed them.
>
>Any suggestions to prevent them from being recreated? I saw your last post
>on map permissions that references the srf. We're not using NetView
>Security...
>
>Thanks,
>Karin
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM>
>To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
>Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 11:22 PM
>Subject: Re: New map sort of created - cannot delete it.
>
>
>>Sounds like a job for 'mapadmin'. See the man page. I made one like that
>>today too and will check it out tomorrow.
>>
>>Cordially,
>>
>>Leslie A. Clark
>>IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
>>
>>
>>
>>I was playing with setting of map permissions trying to restrict non-root
>>users from creating and deleting maps. I seem to have created a "map stub
>>entry" (for lack of a better term) and cannot get rid of it.
>>
>>I set ovwperms -G -m 644 and then tried to test it. I started the NetView
>>Gui (nv6000) as a non-root user, then selected the menu File - new map
and
>>delete map were not greyed out. So I selected New Map, gave it a name,
and
>>clicked ok. I received a popup "Unable to create a new map. Permission
>>denied". So far so good. But then I selected File-->Open Map and it
>listed
>>the default map and the "new" map (that had been "denied"). The new map
>>shows permissions "unknown" and comments "Non-local map (node name...)"
>>where node name is our one and only Netview server (no clients). I
>selected
>>the new map, yet the delete option remained greyed out. Tried the File-->
>>Delete Map, and same results. I closed the GUI, logged in as root and
>>restarted the GUI (nv6000). Selected File--> Delete Map and same results:
>>delete button was greyed and non-selectable. From the CLI, entered ovwls
>>and the default and new mapname were both listed. Looked in
>>/usr/OV/databases/openview/mapdb and it only showed the default map. Did
a
>>find on all file systems, and cannot find a file with the new mapname. I
>>can't tell the contents of the new map because I cannot open it.
>>
>>Where is this new map/mapname buried, how can it be deleted, and how can I
>>prevent admins from creating more of them?
>>What is the impact?
>>
>>This is recreatable (I now have two extra maps...).
>>
>>Envmt: AIX 4.3.2, NV 5.1.1
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any assistance / insights.
>>Karin Binder
>>
>
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