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April 12th, 2012 14:00

OME Linux Updates - Root Access

My area of concern pertains to pushing out firmware updates.

To meet the requirements of our audits, we do not permit root access via ssh.

Superuser ssh credentials would appear to be the means for pushing updates out to linux hosts.

Is it possible to work around this with an alternate login that has sudo access? Any other suggestions to this end?

 

  • DELL-Abhijit P

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    Posted April 12th, 2012 14:00

    Hi,

    Thanks for your post.

    Currently the System updates framework doesn't have support for running sudo commands and does need a root accout to apply Linux DUPs.

    We will keep this in mind for future releases and see if we can add support for sudo access.

    As a work around is it possible for you to provide root access to ssh if the request comes from specific IP address? That might provide a work around.

    Regards

    Abhijit

  • bobst_its

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    Posted May 20th, 2013 10:00

    Hi,

    Is there any update for adding sudo access support to OME?  The work around mentioned above introduces a major security risk and goes against one of the fundamental rules of Unix administration.  We've spent time and resources getting OME up and running in our environment only to now find out that it's not useable for most of our environment because of this limitation.

    Thanks,

    Ryan

  • DELL-Rob C

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    Posted May 20th, 2013 15:00

    Hi Ryan,

    Sudo feature is available in OME 1.2 for System Updates and OMSA Deploy.  This release will be available during the summer timeframe.

    Hope this helps.

    Rob

  • bobst_its

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    Posted May 21st, 2013 09:00

    That's great to hear, looking forward to that update.  Thanks Rob.