permissions on lvm* commands

[Chris Little_1]

we want the operators to be able to split and merge mirrored volumes, however WITH suid set, and operators added to the acl, we still get the message "must be root to use this command.

Any ideas?

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

One way to di it is to create an account called sysop or rootop and set it to the same uid:gid as root, and let your operators use that. Ensure you have a .history file setup for them so you can see what they get up to - ie. ensure they only run split/merge.

A safer way to do it is use a higher level backup tool such as Omniback. Within it you can set permissions for users (of omniback) and allow your ops to run scripts (as root) as part of a backup (eg split then merge after the backup) without them ever having root shell capabilities.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

How about using sudo? available at the porting centre
http://eigen.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.2b1/