SWLIST as non root user.

[lawtt]

I have two HP 11 machines. On one I can run swlist as a non privilaged user, on the other I can not. I have review the ACL's and they are the same. (Both have not been modified since initial install) Any ideas as to why would be appreciated.

 

[cakonnor]

check if you have sudo installed on the machine that works. sudo can be used to allow ordinary users run some superuser commands

 

[lawtt]

Neither machine has SUDO installed. And on the machine that I can issue swlist, I can also view the ACL's via swacl with no problem. I already checked to see if the ID I am using has any special permissions, and it does not. %-(

 

[JDM123]

Someone has set the ACL such that only root can use the "swlist" command.

As root, execute the following commands:

swacl -l root -M any_other:-r--t
swacl -l host -M any_other:-r--t
swacl -l depot -M any_other:-r--t

This should get you going.

NOTE: Not allowing others to see what is loaded on your computer can make it harder for "undesirables" to find out what patches etc are loaded on your system.