swreg / swacl cannot regester depot or change acl as root

[Alan Casey]

Hi I'm trying to register /cdrom as a sw depot as root.
This fails, and I get the same errors if I try swacl changes. please help



image1(root)/> swreg -l depot /cdrom

======= 03/04/04 18:59:13 GMT BEGIN swreg SESSION (non-interactive)

* Session started for user "root@image1".

* Beginning Selection
* Targets: image1
* Objects: /cdrom
ERROR: "image1:/cdrom": You do not have the required permissions to
perform this SD operation. Please check to see that you have
the required permissions using the "swacl" command or see your
system administrator for assistance.
ERROR: More information may be found in the daemon logfile on this
target (default location is image1:/var/adm/sw/swagentd.log).
* Selection had errors.



======= 03/04/04 18:59:13 GMT END swreg SESSION (non-interactive)

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi Alan,

Ping to your 'hostname' and see if it is successful. 'hostname' should be resolvable to the local IP address. SO, make sure your /etc/hosts entry is correct.

Also restart your swagentd process. Kill 'swagentd', make sure it is not running and start it with 'swagentd -r' and see if can run swreg again.

-Sri

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Alan,

If Sri's suggestions do not clear the problem AND this system was ignited from another it *could* be a problem with the ACLs having the old hostname embedded in them.
Check the files in /var/adm/sw/security - specifically all files that start with "_"

Rgds,
Jeff

[Michael Tully]

I've seen this a couple od times, where the system hostname has been changed or there is a DNS problem. If this is the case, restart the 'swagent' daemon.

[Colin Topliss]

....and if the restart of swagentd doesn't fix the problem, try:
swacl -l host

Note that you need to type the word 'host', and NOT type your hostname :-)

You should see a line:
user:root:crwit

If you don't see crwit against root, then you will have a problem.

Do:

swacl -l host -M user:root@:crwit

Check to see if the change has been made by once more doing
swacl -l host

You should see that root has all persmissions back again.

I must admit I've only ever come across unusual permissions once or twice - certainly not common to just lose them if this turns out to be the case.

[T G Manikandan]

Just do a

#/usr/sbin/swagentd -r

This will rebounce your swagentd.Might be scenario where the ip/hostname had some modifications but the swagentd was not restarted for that to take into effect.

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi Alan,

Please check this link:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=198788