topic newid on linux... in Operating System - Linux

newid on linux...

Sameh Shaker — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:25:51 GMT

Hello,
I'm working on a linux grid currently managed and maintained by HP, however, I couldn't help notice the use of newid to elevate user privileges, I don't seem to be able to find this anywhere online, and the newid is installed by an RPM on RHEL5/x86_64 ...

My question is, where can I obtain that package for i386, and it would be awesome if we could some how get to the source code of it...

Any tips will be highly appreciated...

Re: newid on linux...

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:08:17 GMT

Shalom,

rpm -qa | grep newid

Get the rpm name

rpm -ql

This should enable you to compose a yum command for it, if it comes off a repo.

Also:

rpm -qf

It may already include 32 bit binaries, but probably not.

also: http://rpmfind.net

SEP

Re: newid on linux...

macosta — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:13:57 GMT

Also, why not ask your support/account folks about the utility. Who knows - it may simply be a symlink to sudo for all I know.

If it is open source, it should not be an issue to point you to the source, but if it is proprietary, you may still ask to see the source for your own accounting purposes.