On 5/25/2010 1:51 PM, Woodruff, Robert J 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
As someone who's a novice to IB, but a long time system manager, I'd say that this would be a very risky thing to do. You'd better hope that none of these program have any lurking security holes. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 [email protected] _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
