From: Ian Wallace (iwallace@eforceglobal.com)
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 11:15:07 EST
Hello Gurus! I've been searching the archives, and trying to figure out
via different man pages/Sun documents how to do this but with no luck.
I manage a mixed environment of Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 boxes. Each has
the smpatch utility installed on it.
When I run 'smpatch analyze' on the Solaris 8 boxes it just returns a
nice list of suggested patches.
On Solaris 9 the same command instead prompts me for the root password
(the user I'm running the command as). We don't give out the root
password though ... so I don't know it (we use sudo).
I scanned the man page, and it suggested that I needed to use 'local
only mode' by spec'ing the '-L' option. So I tried:
smpatch analyze -L
And it *still* prompts for a password. Is there any way to get the
Solaris 8 behaviour out of this tool on Solaris 9? I'd like to just be
able to pop on the machine and analyze what it's missing (without having
to have the root password).
TIA
ian
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