On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
IMO a better approach is to use sudo; -- Hal > > -- 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
