Setting Permissions on System files.

[Darrell Tschakert]

Hi,
I am looking for the most convenient place to get permissins/ownerships for HP-UX files. For example /bin/more, /etc/services, /.rhosts, etc. Is there one place to go on the system - one file to look in?

Thanks,

Darrell T

[Pete Randall]

Darrell,

Not that I know of. If you want to list the files you're interested in, I'd be happy to post them for you.

$ ll /bin/more /etc/services /root/.rhosts
-r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 73728 Jul 16 2002 /bin/more
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 11129 Sep 29 08:26 /etc/services
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 151 Mar 16 2004 /root/.rhosts


Pete

[Simon Hargrave · Accepted solution]

Easiest way to check whether the files permissions are "correct" or not is to use swverify. It'll check all files against the package definition, including permissions. eg

swverify OS-Core.UX-CORE

This will check your core files.

If there's a specific file you want to check, you can see which package it exists in with something like (eg to : -

swlist -l file | grep /etc/services

tells you it's in package InternetSrvcs.INETSVCS-INETD

so then you can swverify this to check this file, and all other files in the package.


Sy

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Darrell,

The files under /usr/newconfig are supposed to have default permissions and ownerships. They are the default configuration files. In case if the configuration files are corrupted and are not retrievable from backups, then you can copy these files to get the OS going.

-Sri

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Darrell,

Yu can use swlist to print the default permissions for hpux files and directories

# swlist -l file -a mode | more

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[Darrell Tschakert]

Thank you all. The information will come in very handy in the future. I have tucked it away in my file of "Misc and Helpful Hints".

Thanks again,

Darrell Tschakert