'sw' tools issue

[Jason VanDerMark]

Greetings,

I am having a problem when trying to access any sw utility (swlist, swinstall, swcopy, swacl). The error reads as follows:

ERROR: Could not initialize security. Process does not have super-user privilege.

I am sure that this is an easy one, but it is eluding me. Thanks in advance for your help.

[Rita C Workman]

Your problem sounds like a permissions issue. You need to run swacl. This thread spells it well:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xc5ed6c96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

/rcw

[Jason VanDerMark]

I have already tried all the steps detailed in the forums and nothing has worked. I cannot even get any information from swacl it gives the same error as the rest. :-(

[Rita C Workman]

Are you logged in as root???

[Jason VanDerMark]

I am logged in as root. The system has no NIS, DNS, or hardly anything else running. The server is not running in trusted mode. I was attempting to install mutt(email client) and it was giving me some problems( not a valid depot. Forgot to register it...oops) went back to the command line and it would no longer allow me to do anything with sw. Attempted to fix it by applying all the changes I could, even renamed the sw directory and tar-ed one over from an identicle box to no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Rita C Workman]

Did you try stopping and restarting the swagent yet?

/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

Then retry...

/rcw

[Jason VanDerMark]

Yep, tried that too. Nothing seems to have helped. I know its probably a configuration file lying somewhere that I can just tweak and go, but I don't know where it could be.

[Rita C Workman]

You said you can't run any sw utility...

Can you run swlist?

/rcw

[Jason VanDerMark]

Nope, can't run swlist, swinstall, swacl, swreg, probably other sw tools I missed.

[Rita C Workman]

Now a couple other basic questions....may sound off topic, but it's not.

Run nslookup (by ip and hostname) does it run right?
Run uname -a does it look right?

/rcw

[Jason VanDerMark]

Ran the nslookups by both ip and by hostname for several systems with no problems, and the uname -a looks perfectly normal.

[Andy Monks · Accepted solution]

Check your permissions on the sw* executables :-

-r-sr-xr-x 10 root bin 1478656 May 30 1996 /usr/sbin/swinstall

All the other commands are hard links.

Andy

[Rita C Workman]

Good...I did some looking around for similar threads and I found this. Take a look down and start looking at what Stefan Farrely wrote at 11:20 and through the end. It looks pretty promising.....and since I have to head out I'm hoping this will help you. Do the swlist resolution..the IPD reload may still be a problem, then look near the end at the suggestion to check if files under /var/adm/sw/product have been removed and restore them....
Here's the the thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x68970559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Gotta run...meeting !!
/rcw

[Jason VanDerMark]

I found what was causing the problem, somehow bin was assigned as the owner of swinstall. Once it was changed back to root, things were perfect again. I knew it was something simple. Thank you all for you help.

Regards,
Jason V.