It looks like you need both read and write privileges on that device for it to work from non-root users. I'm not entirely sure why ipmitool needs to write to the device though. I'm not sure you really want to do this though because it may allow non-root users to do things like shutdown/reboot the host.
-- Brian McNally Shaun Qualheim wrote: > Hi there all -- > > I realize that this may not be the most appropriate group for this topic, > but it's quite likely someone here has run into this at some point. > > I'm using nagios and wanting to use the check_ipmi script on the local > machine with a check_by_ssh check. > > The problem I'm running into right now is when the script is trying to run > the ipmitool command as a non-root user. I've changed /dev/ipmi0 to have > 644 permission in an attempt to allow non-root users to read from the ipmi > device. This has not yet worked though: > > > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 252, 0 Aug 5 22:31 /dev/ipmi0 > > > I still receive the following response: > > > [sh...@localhost ~]$ ipmitool sdr > Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No > such file or directory > Get Device ID command failed > Unable to open SDR for reading > > > > Anyone know what needs to be done to enable read-only non-root ipmi access > for this script to grab the data for nagios? > > Thanks, > Shaun > _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@lists.us.dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
