[Orca-users] SE Toolkit

[Sean O'Neill]

I had a user created called orcaboy.  Then I put the orcaboy login into 
the sys group and everything worked just great.

Diana N wrote:

>Jason,
>
>  We are running SE 3.2.1 and when we installed it, we
>tried to make it run as a non-root user for, say,
>security reasons. When we tried with a regular user we
>found that there were a couple of graphs that we
>didn't get info for. We found, though, that the user
>sys was good enough, so we are using that one. In any
>case, that's for our version; I'm not sure if they
>changed something for yours..
>
>Diana.
>
>--- Jason.Santos at aps.com wrote: > Fellow Orca-users:
>  
>
>>While perusing Sun's BigAdmin site, this document
>>caught my eye:
>>http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1003/817-3835.pdf
>>
>>Page 3 (5 of the PDF) has the following warning:
>>
>>---------
>>Caution -- Do not run SE in a production
>>environment.  It is ok to run
>>it in a development or test environment.  If you
>>have to run SE in a
>>production environment, run it as a non-root user.
>>---------
>>
>>I deployed Orca across our enterprise (75+ servers)
>>more than 6 months
>>ago, and all the systems are running orcallator (and
>>thus, SE) as root
>>(and without any issues, I might add!).
>>
>>Is anyone running SE toolkit as another user?  Are
>>there any issues with
>>some data not being available as root?  I believe
>>the latest SE (I'm
>>running 3.3) uses mostly the kstat interface, which
>>I know is available
>>to all users.
>>
>>Before I have to go login to a bunch of servers to
>>modify the config, I
>>wanted to know if there were any other issues.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>-- 
>>Jason Santos
>>Sr. Unix System Administrator
>>Pinnacle West/APS
>>Phoenix, Arizona, USA
>>    
>>
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