Hrm ... I dunno ... I installed universe and specified using uvadm as 
the admin user.  My perms on list_readu are different:
-rwxr-x--x  1 root uvadm 1289340 May 10  2005 
/usr/local/Universe/ibm/bin/list_readu

uvadm belongs to:
uid=600(uvadm) gid=600(uvadm) groups=600(uvadm) 
context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t
 which implies I _should_ be able to execute this, but I always get
Insufficient privileges to perform lock maintenance.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: [U2] RedHat, Universe, unlocking
Date:   Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:21:44 -0800
From:   John Hester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:     U2 User Group List <[email protected]>
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Sirulnick, Steve wrote:
> Because in order to be uvadm on *nix based systems, you must be root.  In
> windows, you need to be a part of the administrator group. Sucky, isn't it?

uvadm doesn't need root priviledges, but AFAIK you have to specify that 
you're going to use uvadm as the admin user rather than root during the 
UV installation process.  This is necessary to set file permissions 
correctly.  This is my uvadm entry in /etc/passwd on RH AS 3:

uvadm:x:501:501::/home/uvadm:/bin/bash

The list_readu binary is still owned by root, but suid is set:

-rwsr-x--x    1 root     bin       1285180 Jul 26  2004 list_readu

I didn't do this myself so it must have been done during the initial 
install.  Almost everything else is owned by uvadm though, so I'd 
venture to guess that if you've already specified root as admin during 
install, the only safe way to switch to uvadm is to reinstall.

-John
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John Hester
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