Re: sticky bits, AIX and TMR/MNs

Under FW 3.7 I tried this and things started to go "weird". Inventory 
seemed to suffer the most from what I recall, but it may have change in 
4.1.1.

Good luck.

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jamie_w_carl@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Our security team has done a "sweep" of our TMR and Gateways (all running
> AIX) and identified numerous files with global rwx (777) permissions within
> the Tivoli directory structure.  They want to activate the "sticky bit" on
> all of these files - I'm apprehensive to say the least....  Sometimes files
> are 777 because they need to be.  We're running TMF 4.1.1+, SWD 4.0+, INV
> 4.1+, DM 3.7+, ITM 5.1.2-FP2.
>
> Has anyone else done something similar with their TMR and/or Gateways?  Any
> known gotchas?
>
> Jamie Carl
> Enterprise Systems Management
> Phone: 614-213-7512
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