hpsmh on HP-UX

[Nuon Admin]

AFter installing hp system management homepage on a HP-UX machine they want you to logon for the first time with the root account. My problem is our root account password is in a envelope in a fault. When we open this envelope to get the root password I have change the root's account password for a 150 machines. Not nice.
Is there an otherway to logon for the firsttime without this root account?

[OFC_EDM]

I've never set this up but I found this. It may help.

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-3386/5992-3386.pdf

I was looking at page 36 ... may help you ou
- Giving Users Limited Access to Text-Based HP SMH

[OFC_EDM]

Here's a little more text from that section.

Giving Users Limited Access to Text-Based HP SMH

As system administrator, you can give limited text-based HP SMH access to
nonsuperusers individually by user name and collectively by primary group name.

Maybe from there you can find a way to authorize a user to access the web based hpsmh??

[Torsten.]

The problem is you need to be root in order to assign access to other users.

How do you perfomr root actions now? sudo only?

[OFC_EDM]

Torsten,

What's the process to give a "regular" user access to hpsmh assuming you have root access?

I'm looking at the hpsmh guide but it only seems to have procedure for creating accounts via hpsmh. And not a section on how to authorized users to access the hpsmh via Web.

Cheers

[Torsten.]

Log on to smh (root) - > settings -> security -> user groups

[OFC_EDM]

I'm not allowed to restart the service right now.

I'm guessing I have to in order for the user settings to take effect?

I added myself to the Operators group but can't login.

Looks like Nuon will have to manually add users to the group. I haven't found a command line way to do it.

[Nuon Admin]

Unfortunaly on my test machine I am running HP-UX.B.11.11 and I don't have /usr/sbin/smh or /usr/sbin/ugweb and so on.

[Olivier Masse]

I'm reviving this thread as I have the same problem. I've been asked to enable SMH in order to use the ServiceGuard Manager plug-in since it's the only way to have a GUI around SG 11.18.

Like Nuon, NOBODY here use the root password. We use privrun to become root. As a sysadmin, I like it that way. So I can't just document in my install guide to "login as root" to configure user privileges in SMH.

Is there any way to do configure SMH users without logging into SMH as root the first time. I have full root privileges on the system -- but in a shell only.

Thanks

[Olivier Masse]

Never mind, I found it. Users are defined in file /opt/hpsmh/conf.common/smhpd.xml which, at least, is not binary. Add them there then restart SMH, and it seems to work.

[Nuon Admin]

Tried Oliver's tip and it works, thanks.

[Nuon Admin]

See solution from Oliver