topic Re: hpvminfo in Operating System - HP-UX

hpvminfo

Eric_68 — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:46:19 GMT

How can the regular to run this command to get the host info?

$ hpvminfo -V
hpvminfo: Permission denied - user must be root to run.
hpvminfo: Unable to continue.

$ ll /opt/hpvm/bin/hpvminfo
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 82616 Jul 2 2008 /opt/hpvm/bin/hpvminfo

Re: hpvminfo

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:49:18 GMT

Hi:

You could setup 'sudo' to allow this to be run by a particular user, a group of users or everyone.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: hpvminfo

Eric_68 — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:54:29 GMT

sudo is never allowed by stupid UNIX team.

Re: hpvminfo

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:07:26 GMT

Hi (again):

> sudo is never allowed by stupid UNIX team.

Interesting. Another way would be to have the system administrator create a setuid C-code wrapper for exactly the command needed. Of course, I suspect that this is all academic.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: hpvminfo

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:07:30 GMT

I would say you are pretty much out of luck then.

If you cannot work with your Unix admins to get this information then there is not much that can be done.

Re: hpvminfo

Eric_68 — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:11:52 GMT

Hi, James/Patrick,

Yes, totally agree with you.

But HP should change hpvminfo to the same as machinfo that is the command for everyone can run to get the system info.