RE: [NV-L] Root access

[Leslie Clark <lclark@us.ibm.com>]

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" <Bill.Evans@hq.doe.gov>
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05/11/2007 05:02 PM

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Subject	RE: [NV-L] Root access

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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Subject: [NV-L] Root access


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.  

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