Thanks a lot Doug. I did download this utility and unzipped it. Sounds like you need to be 'root' to install and manage it. Right?
I might have a problem convincing our Unix admin to go with it! >From: Doug Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Doug Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Amir Sadeghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [DB2EUG] Allowing a tester to backup/restore >Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:33:25 -0800 > > >Hi Amir, > >On most unix systems, you can use a utility called "sudo". If it's not >currently installed, it's an open source utility that can be downloaded >and compiled on any unix system. You can easily setup sudo to control >which users are privileged to run certain programs. > >Doug > >On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 08:36:49PM +0000, Amir Sadeghi wrote: > > Hi team, > > > > In order to reduce to workload on the database team, we have been >thinking > > of allowing the testers to perform their own offline backup/restore of >the > > test databases on AIX. > > > > However, we are reluctant to give them sysadm, sysctrl, and sysmaint to >let > > them do a "force application all" and peform backup and restore. > > > > We would like to somehow encrypt the DBA password and let them run a >script > > that uses the DBA user id and password to peform these tasks. However, >I > > could not find an encryption utility for UNIX. Has anyone ever done >this > > kind of things? > > > > Any ideas are appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > > > Amir > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > > - > > ::: When replying to the list, please use 'Reply-All' and make sure > > ::: a copy goes to the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > *** To unsubscribe, send 'unsubscribe' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** For more information, check http://www.db2eug.uni.cc >- >::: When replying to the list, please use 'Reply-All' and make sure >::: a copy goes to the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). >*** To unsubscribe, send 'unsubscribe' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >*** For more information, check http://www.db2eug.uni.cc Amir _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com - ::: When replying to the list, please use 'Reply-All' and make sure ::: a copy goes to the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). *** To unsubscribe, send 'unsubscribe' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** For more information, check http://www.db2eug.uni.cc
