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I see a lot of thread on LDAP Authentication but I want to enable LDAP Authentication with Authorization. Meaning, removing the user ID's and groups from the local servers and move them to an LDAP...

We're using VIO (not an HMC) to manage our LPAR's We have 3 physical adapters and 4 LPARs. Through the VIO interface we assigned 2 virtual interfaces but require a 3rd interface assigned to these...

I have a standard template I deploy for each of my AIX servers. It's in a mksysb format which I pulled via the nim server after I originally set it up.

I'm trying to restore this mksysb over the...

This answer kinda depends on how you plan to perform your backups. We utilize nfs mounts for our backups and use savevg to the nfs mount and then tape backup the nfs system.

Within our cron entry...

Yes the user ID belongs to the group "waswps". The script does not perform any checking for who you are or who you are running as. It's a simple ./stopServer WebSphere_Portal -username <adminid>...

I've been asked to provide access to my system for another group of individuals to perform WebSphere and Portal tasks (stop/start specifically). I run both as root (we can debate this one later) and...

I'm so used to importing the environment never thought about leaving the "-" off. That worked....Thanks for the response.

ok...I'm stumped on this one. I cannot figure out how to carry over my environment variables with a sudo command. I need to install an application under root and only have sudo access to get there. I...

I've just started to explore NIM and I'm looking for additional information on how to set it up and configure it. I've read through the "NIM A-Z" and have many unanswered questions.

One question...

I created a RAID 5 array and when I list out the attributes of the "hdisk" it reports back raid_level = 5 but the RAID level of the array = false. What does this actually indicate about my array?...

I knew it would happen sooner or later....

We have a requirement that specific individuals need "sudo root" authority. I knew it only a matter of time before someone decided to change the root...

We run WebSphere and by default it wants to install everything under /usr. While I can understand the default (everyone has a /usr) I would like to move this over to a dedicated volume group called...

I have my sudoers file setup to provide execution of specific directories (/a/s, /a/x, /a/d, /a/e, etc.....) I tried to list just /a/ meaning anything under /a can be executed by specific ids....

While I've never tried this with *root*, you could make another group called sutoroot and add this to roots list of groups. Then (at least on AIX) you can restrict by group which groups are...

We recently had an accidental delete from /. I hold the root password but others are allowed to sudo over to root to perform admin tasks. The only way I want to permit deletion from / is by...