[Freeipmi-devel] user permissions for running freeipmi clis

[Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic]

Hi all,

we are trying to port freeipmi on opensolaris (most of the stuff done, 
just paperwork remains) and we need to clarify one thing - freeipmi 
requires (at least our ported version) an user with root permissions to 
run certain commands. As we are using solaris BMC driver, we first 
thought that the problem is in BMC driver but according the information 
form some other (more BMC driver skilled guys) this is not the reason 
and they suspect that it is matter of how freeipmi interprets the IPMI 
user security.

Can some shed more light into it, please? Is it freeipmi who needs root 
user?

Here is brief output how freeipmi clis behave when run under a non-root 
account:

-->cd /usr/sbin/
-->ls -la bmc-*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin      1050148 Feb 19 19:09 bmc-config
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       514956 Feb 19 19:09 bmc-device
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       487364 Feb 19 19:09 bmc-info
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       339560 Feb 19 19:09 bmc-watchdog
-->ls -la ipmi-*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       527748 Feb 19 19:09 ipmi-chassis
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       677276 Feb 19 19:09 ipmi-chassis-config
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       679640 Feb 19 19:09 ipmi-fru
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       138348 Feb 19 19:10 ipmi-locate
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       471508 Feb 19 19:09 ipmi-oem
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       474672 Feb 19 19:09 ipmi-raw
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       641740 Feb 19 19:09 ipmi-sel
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       736188 Feb 19 19:10 ipmi-sensors
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       828848 Feb 19 19:10 ipmi-sensors-config

<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./bmc-config --checkout
./bmc-config: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./bmc-device --get-acpi-power-state
./bmc-device: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./bmc-device --get-lan-statistics
./bmc-device: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./bmc-info
./bmc-info: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./bmc-watchdog -g
bmc-watchdog: Error opening logfile 
'/var/log/freeipmi/bmc-watchdog.log': Permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmi-chassis --get-status
./ipmi-chassis: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmi-chassis-config --checkout
./ipmi-chassis-config: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmi-fru -V
ipmi-fru - 0.7.4
Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
Copyright (C) 2007 The Regents of the University of California.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmi-locate
./ipmi-locate: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmi-oem -L
OEM ID: supermicro
  Command: reset-intrusion - reset motherboard intrusion flag.

<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmi-sel -i
./ipmi-sel: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmi-sensors
./ipmi-sensors: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmi-sensors-config --checkout
./ipmi-sensors-config: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmimonitoring
./ipmimonitoring: permission denied
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmiping -i 1 ge2
ipmiping ge2 (10.18.143.68)
response timed out: rq_seq=25
response timed out: rq_seq=26
response timed out: rq_seq=27
response timed out: rq_seq=28
^C--- ipmiping ge2 statistics ---
5 requests transmitted, 0 responses received in time, 100.0% packet loss
<non-root-user>@ge2:/usr/sbin> ./ipmipower -h ge2 -s
ge2: connection timeout

Regards,

Michal

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