RE: [NV-L] Root access

["Evans, Bill" <Bill.Evans@hq.doe.gov>]

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

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From: nv-l-bounces@lists.ca.ibm.com [mailto:nv-l-bounces@lists.ca.ibm.com] On Behalf Of Leslie Clark
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 6:43 PM
To: Tivoli NetView Discussions
Subject: RE: [NV-L] Root access

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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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:08 
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To: Tivoli NetView Discussions
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. 
  

Thanks, 
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