Strange root behaviour, not superuser?

[Jeff Barber]

Since hardening (we think) the root user seems to be behaving strangely. For example a PS output does not display everything, only local session processes. Executing glance gets 'permission denied'. Reversing the hardening has made no difference. Using cmviewcl fails with a 'failed to load information from configuration database' message. Root's id is zero.

[Oviwan]

hey

post the output of "id" as root.

regards

[Armin Kunaschik]

Maybe some "helpful" security guy removed "unnecessary" libraries/binaries or permissions?
Do an "swverify \*" and check for errors and warning.
If you see any permission or owner warnings you should restore to the default values and send the security guy's to HP before modifying anything :-)

My 2 cents,
Armin

[TTr]

> Executing glance gets 'permission denied'

This looks like there is a ownership and permissions issue in you directory tree. Check the /opt/perf to figure out what changes were made to this and other system directories. Glance relies on midaemon which gets its metrics from the kernel. There could be kernel issues too.

> Since hardening ...Reversing the hardening

Did you run some scripts? Can you look in them to see what they did?