I have a HMC with a p690 running.
I would like to do a remote connection on the HMC with the "root" to restart
RMC daemons after failure.

Can I connect to the HMC with ssh and "hscroot" user and do and "su" command
?
Or other ?

toto wrote:
> I have a HMC with a p690 running.
> I would like to do a remote connection on the HMC with the "root" to restart
> RMC daemons after failure.
>
> Can I connect to the HMC with ssh and "hscroot" user and do and "su" command
> ?
> Or other ?
>
>
You can enable/disable remote ssh access from the GUI.
After enabling you can ssh with hscroot and use a restricted set of
commands. Remote login as root is not possible. Su from hscroot to root
is also not possible (3.2.6) remotely. On site you can become root at
the HMC by toggling ctrl-alt-F1/F2 between the Gui and the commandline,
and su from hscroot to root works then.
You could reboot the HMC to restart the daemons, remotely, with the
hscroot user and the command "hmcshutdown -r -t <graceperiod>"

Regards,
Gert

GertK <nomail@mail.invalid> wrote in message news:<csqdhn$d5$1@news.cistron.nl>...
> toto wrote:
> > I have a HMC with a p690 running.
> > I would like to do a remote connection on the HMC with the "root" to restart
> > RMC daemons after failure.
> >
> > Can I connect to the HMC with ssh and "hscroot" user and do and "su" command
> > ?
> > Or other ?
> >
> >
> You can enable/disable remote ssh access from the GUI.
> After enabling you can ssh with hscroot and use a restricted set of
> commands. Remote login as root is not possible. Su from hscroot to root
> is also not possible (3.2.6) remotely. On site you can become root at
> the HMC by toggling ctrl-alt-F1/F2 between the Gui and the commandline,
> and su from hscroot to root works then.
> You could reboot the HMC to restart the daemons, remotely, with the
> hscroot user and the command "hmcshutdown -r -t <graceperiod>"
>
> Regards,
> Gert


That depends on your HMC level. Defineately from 4.2.1 onwards its
not possible to gain access to root. To do so you have to logonh as
hmcpe (think that the right ID), then run the 'pesh' command which
asks for a password. This password you have to get from IBM. Once
you enter this password you can then su to root. The password IBM
supply is only valid for one day.

basically you have to also be an IBM engineer before IBM wil give you
the password.

Scott