Re: [Veritas-bu] bppllist as a non superuser

2007-08-29 Thread Clooney, David
Oliver Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bppllist as a non superuser well, bppllist is just parsing the data that it finds in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/class/* so depending on the amount / nature of the data you're trying to extract, you could roll your own with cross

[Veritas-bu] bppllist as a non superuser

2007-08-28 Thread Kyle Oliver
My most focused post yet on the subject! I need to run bppllist as a non superuser for some reporting tools. Ideally, without having to use a password either. For whatever reason, this particular binary checks for UID 0 and if you are not UID 0, you get userid is not superuser (140). I

Re: [Veritas-bu] bppllist as a non superuser

2007-08-28 Thread rob worman
well, bppllist is just parsing the data that it finds in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/class/* so depending on the amount / nature of the data you're trying to extract, you could roll your own with cross-platform setuid scripting of some sort. not something I'd recommend, but technically feasible and