Re: [Freeipmi-devel] user permissions for running freeipmi clis

2009-03-02 Thread Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic
Al, that would probably solve our last remaining problem. If you can do this, I'd really appreciate it (and opensolaris community also). Thx, Michal On 03/02/09 18:05, Al Chu wrote: Hey Michal, On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 18:31 +0100, Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic wr

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] user permissions for running freeipmi clis

2009-03-02 Thread Al Chu
Hey Michal, On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 18:31 +0100, Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic wrote: > Hi Al, > > thx for update. I am no expert on solaris BMC driver, but guys who seem > to have more knowledge than I do claim that Solaris bmc driver do not > need root permissions.

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] user permissions for running freeipmi clis

2009-02-27 Thread Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic
Hi Al, thx for update. I am no expert on solaris BMC driver, but guys who seem to have more knowledge than I do claim that Solaris bmc driver do not need root permissions. To explain why I need this info - a solaris SW has to follow some architectural rules, and one of these rules touches th

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] user permissions for running freeipmi clis

2009-02-27 Thread Al Chu11
Hey Michal, A bit of background here. The first FreeIPMI releases implemented their inband communication via iopl() calls in Linux. These calls require root and thus some checks were put in before the calls. Later, support for other devices (openipmi's /dev/ipmi, sun's /dev/bmc) were added. I

RE: [Freeipmi-devel] user permissions for running freeipmi clis

2009-02-27 Thread Andy Cress
es+arcress=users.sourceforge@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:28 AM To: freeipmi-devel@gnu.org Subject: [Freeipmi-devel] user permissions for running freeipmi clis Hi all, we are trying to port freeipmi on opensolari

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] user permissions for running freeipmi clis

2009-02-27 Thread Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic
..@gnu.org [mailto:freeipmi-devel-bounces+arcress=users.sourceforge@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:28 AM To: freeipmi-devel@gnu.org Subject: [Freeipmi-devel] user permissions for running freeipmi clis Hi all, we

[Freeipmi-devel] user permissions for running freeipmi clis

2009-02-27 Thread Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic
Hi all, we are trying to port freeipmi on opensolaris (most of the stuff done, just paperwork remains) and we need to clarify one thing - freeipmi requires (at least our ported version) an user with root permissions to run certain commands. As we are using solaris BMC driver, we first thought