On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Woodruff, Robert J <robert.j.woodr...@intel.com> wrote: > > Hi Sasha, > > Some people were asking me if it would be possible to > allow some of the IB diagnostic tools to be run without > requiring being logged in as root. Would there be > any problem in changing the installation to set their > permissions to setuid root to allow this, i.e., > > chmod +s /usr/sbin/ibnetdiscover > chmod +s /usr/sbin/ibaddr > chmod +s /usr/sbin/smpquery > chmod +s /usr/sbin/perfquery
If you really want any user to do this, is changing umad permissions sufficient ? This is less of a security hole than setuid but does open things up for malicious users. -- Hal > woody > _______________________________________________ > ewg mailing list > ewg@lists.openfabrics.org > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg > _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
