From: Aaron W Morris (aaronmorris@MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 13:23:58 EST
Mandeville, Janet A wrote:
> We are having a debate about the wisdom of setting the necessary
> permissions (chmod ugo+r /dev/kmem) in order to allow users to run nmon.
> One point of view is that this is dangerous; another point of view is
> that it is not.
>
> I thought it might be interesting to see what the collective wisdom of
> this mailing list has to offer - thanks for any / all opinions!
>
> Jane Mandeville
>
>
If users will only be running nmon interactively, sudo is the way to go.
If users need to run it via cron jobs, then you can use setup sudo for
nmon with no password for individual users or "chmod u+s nmon" if you
are not overly concerned with every user on the box being able to run it.
-- Aaron W Morris <aaronmorris@mindspring.com> (decep)
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