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Question about service accounts

Karen Birkelbach — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:39:26 GMT

I have come into an environment that didn't standardize their UID's and GID's across all servers and am now tasked with standardizing them. Our new itanium servers are coming with two new service accounts using UID's that we already have in use. Can anyone tell me what hpsmc:104 and hpsmh:103 are and what the implications of changing their UID's would be?

Thanks,

Karen

Re: Question about service accounts

Peter Godron — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:50:17 GMT

Karen,
Welcome to ITRC, first port after 1 month !

I don't access to similar server, but is there anything in the /opt directory ?
Like /opt/hpsmc or /opt/hpsmh ?

Could be System Management Homepage and System Health Check.

Sure people you use the services will give you better info.

Re: Question about service accounts

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:51:52 GMT

My guess is that this is from the System Health Check software.

More information available from here:
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=SHCBASE01

I wouldn't think that there would be many implications of changing the UID, just be sure once you do to search for files that were owned by that ID and change the ownership on them.

Good luck with your project. I don't envy you.

Re: Question about service accounts

Marvin Strong — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:08:54 GMT

Well hpsmh is some system management homepage account, based on the passwd file.

a quick

find / -user hpsmh finds the following:
/var/opt/hpsmh/logs
/var/opt/hpsmh/logs/smh.log
/var/opt/hpsmh/session
/var/opt/hpsmh/session/php
/var/opt/hpsmh/tmp
/var/opt/hpsmh/tomcat/logs
/opt/hpsmh/data/htdocs/xlaunch/menus
/opt/hpsmh/data/htdocs/comppage
/opt/hpsmh/tomcat/conf
/opt/hpsmh/tomcat/work
/home/hpsmh
/home/hpsmh/.cshrc
/home/hpsmh/.exrc
/home/hpsmh/.login
/home/hpsmh/.profile

my 11.23 system doesnt have a hpsmc account but you could run a find / -user hpsmc to see what it owns.

Re: Question about service accounts

Karen Birkelbach — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:14:15 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions. I don't think anyone has implemented hpsmh on any of the systems, so I'm going to change the UID's and GID's for the Health Check software.

And thanks for the quick response!