topic swacl issue in Operating System - HP-UX

swacl issue

Michael Elleby III_1 — Thu, 30 May 2002 12:18:48 GMT

I have an account on an HPUX that I have added to the 'root' and 'depot' acls to be able to perform swcopy from a remote host.

The issue is, the files are being written in the target directory and owned by root and not the account that I added to the acl.

How can I force ownership and permissions to the account that I added to the acls?

Thanx.

Re: swacl issue

Steve Steel — Thu, 30 May 2002 12:34:48 GMT

Hi

please confirm if you are copying from a cd.

This method can swinstall/swcopy from a
CD-ROM with ACL''s.

1 You Must Become Root
If the CD-ROM has ACL''s in the catalog dir tree,
ex /catalog/pafiles/_ACL, you can swinstall and swcopy from the CD-ROM if you are user "root".
You cannot be non-root user with root privileges. It won't work.
Be "root" and swinstall/swcopy .

2 Copy Depot To Disk
Use UNIX "cp" to copy the depot to your local or NFS mounted drive.
Example, The depot is located on the CD-ROM
as /CD/TOYS then, you can copy the whole depot to /tmp on your local disk (assuming you have the space and privileges) using the command:

cp -pR /CD/TOYS /tmp/TOYS

The SD locking mechanism will then work properly and you can swinstall
and swcopy to your heart''s content as a non-root user having SD "root"
privileges.

W hat are SD "root" privileges?
Say user "ken" needs host install and depot create privileges. As user "root" the system manager needs to execute the following commands:

swacl -l host -M user:ken:a
swacl -l root -M host:ken:a

Then "ken" can create depots using swcopy and swinstall software on the local host.

steve Steel

Re: swacl issue

Michael Elleby III_1 — Thu, 30 May 2002 12:42:04 GMT

Hello Steve-

Just to confirm, I'm not copying from a CD. I am performing the swcopy from a depot on a remote host.

I do note that the acls on the remote host are different from the acls that the user is trying to copy to. Also, he (the user) is using a different account to perform the task.

I am going to add this user's original account to the host acl and retry.

Mike-

Re: swacl issue

Michael Elleby III_1 — Fri, 31 May 2002 11:42:04 GMT

Steve, what I decided to do was to check the status of the depot on the remote server. I noted that the permissions on the depot were the same as what swcopy was creating on the target machine, which leads me to believe that swcopy is functioning normally. I have contacted my customer and indicated that he needs to retry the swcopy operation.

Will advise if there are any other issues. Thanx for your assistance.

Mike Elleby