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See our previous comment: "As a general rule for our environment: if there is an option to run a daemon in a non-root user context, its the prefered way for us (security considerations)."
Can you elaborate on why you want netcd run as non-root?
We have received an email notification titled "Request for additional information". What additional information is requested?
As a general rule for our environment: if there is an option to run a daemon in a non-root user context, its the prefered way for us (security considerations).
Can you please elaborate why you want netcd run as non-root?
Do you have the similar requirement for other daemon such as inetd.
Thanks,
Thank you for your suggestion. With the help of RBAC roles I can indeed start the netcd daemon as non-root user. However, this is not what we want to achive: the goal is to have the netcd daemon itself running in a non-root user process environment.
Gosh, auto-correction screwed up all the commands
To enable non-root to use netcd, please try the following.
# mkrole authorizations=aix.system.config.src,aix.network.daemon netcdadm
// the first privilege is needed to run starters
# setkst // update kernel security table
login as testadm
# swrole netcdadm // now testadm should have two privileges needed to run netcd
# srcstart -s netcd
/usr/sbin/netcd is a privilege command. It allows the owner and any user who has the aix.network.daemon privilege to run it.
To enable non-root to use netted, please try the following.
# mkrole authorizations=aix.system.config.src,aix.network.d#aemon netcdadm // the first privilege is needed to run starters
# setkst
# chuser roles=netcdadm testadm // assign the netcdadm role to user tested
# login as tested
# swrole netcdadm // now test admin should have two privilege needed to run notch
# srcstart -s netted