Software Distributor (SD-UX) Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (762797-001, March 2014)
Table Of Contents
- Software Distributor Administration Guide
- Contents
- HP secure development lifecycle
- About This Document
- 1 Introduction to Software Distributor
- SD-UX Overview
- SD-UX Concepts
- Using the GUI and TUI Commands
- The Terminal User Interface
- Starting the GUI/TUI Commands
- Window Components
- Opening and closing items in the object list
- Marking Items in the Object List
- Preselecting Host Files
- Software Selection Window
- Session and File Management—The File Menu
- Changing Software Views—The View Menu
- Changing Options and Refreshing the Object List—The Options Menu
- Performing Actions—The Actions Menu
- Getting Help—The Help Menu
- XToolkit Options and Changing Display Fonts
- Working from the Command Line
- 2 Installing Software
- Installation with swinstall
- Features and Limitations
- Installing with the GUI
- Installing from the Command Line
- Installation Tasks and Examples
- Updating to HP-UX 11i
- Installing Patches
- Recovering Updated Files
- Installing Software That Requires a System Reboot
- Using Software Codewords and Customer IDs
- Re-installing Software Distributor
- Installing Multiple Versions
- Installing to an Alternate Root
- Compatibility Filtering and Checking
- Software Selection Checking
- Configuring Your Installation (swconfig)
- Verifying Your Installation (swverify)
- Installation with swinstall
- 3 Managing Installed Software
- 4 Managing Software Depots
- Depot Management Commands and Concepts
- Copying Software Depots
- Registering and Unregistering Depots (swreg)
- Verifying Signed Software Signatures
- Additional Depot Management Tasks and Examples
- Combining Patch Depots
- Creating a Tape Depot for Distribution
- Setting Depot Attributes
- Creating a Network Depot
- Managing Multiple Versions of HP-UX
- Listing Registered Depots
- Listing the Contents of a Depot (swlist -d)
- Source Depot Auditing
- Verifying a Depot (swverify -d)
- Removing Software from Depots
- Removing a Depot
- 5 HP-UX Patching and Patch Management
- 6 Using Jobs and the Job Browser
- 7 Remote Operations Overview
- 8 Reliability and Performance
- 9 SD-UX Security
- 10 Creating Software Packages
- Overview of the Packaging Process
- Identifying the Products to Package
- Adding Control Scripts
- Creating a Product Specification File (PSF)
- Product Specification File Examples
- PSF Syntax
- PSF Object Syntax
- Selecting the PSF Layout Version
- PSF Value Types
- Product Specification File Semantics
- Re-Specifying Files
- Packaging the Software (swpackage)
- Packaging Tasks and Examples
- Registering Depots Created by swpackage
- Creating and Mastering a CD-ROM Depot
- Compressing Files to Increase Performance
- Packaging Security
- Repackaging or Modifying a Software Package
- Packaging In Place
- Following Symbolic Links in the Source
- Generating File Revisions
- Depots on Remote File Systems
- Verifying the Software Package
- Packaging Patch Software
- Writing to Multiple Tapes
- Making Tapes from an Existing Depot
- 11 Using Control Scripts
- Introduction to Control Scripts
- General Script Guidelines
- Packaging Control Scripts
- Using Environment Variables
- Execution of Control Scripts
- Execution of Other Commands by Control Scripts
- Control Script Input and Output
- File Management by Control Scripts
- Testing Control Scripts
- Requesting User Responses (swask)
- Request Script Tasks and Examples
- 12 Nonprivileged SD
- A Command Options
- B Troubleshooting
- Error Logging
- Common Problems
- Cannot Contact Target Host’s Daemon or Agent
- GUI Won’t Start or Missing Support Files
- Access To An Object Is Denied
- Slow Network Performance
- Connection Timeouts and Other WAN Problems
- Disk Space Analysis Is Incorrect
- Packager Fails
- Command Logfile Grows Too Large
- Daemon Logfile Is Too Long
- Cannot Read a Tape Depot
- Installation Fails
- swinstall or swremove Fails With a Lock Error
- Use of Square Brackets ([ and ]) Around an IPv6 Address Causes an Error
- Some SD commands do not work after network configuration changes
- C Replacing or Updating SD-UX
- D Software Distributor Files and File System Structure
- Glossary
- Index

swacl -l root -M user:mary:ri
To give user mary the permission to open the root for reading:
swacl -l root -M user:mary:r
To give user mary the permission to install new software into the root object:
swacl -l root -M user:mary:i
To let remote user allen on host swelter fully manage the root file system:
swacl -l root -M user:allen@swelter:a
To let remote user allen at any host having hostname starting with 'sw' fully manage the root file
system:
swacl -l root -M user:allen@sw*:a
(In the above examples, change user to group and use a group name to add group access to
the depot structures.)
NOTE:
• Because software installation usually involves modification of system files during configurations,
software install and configure scripts are run as the superuser. Therefore, granting a user write
permission on a root is essentially giving them superuser access for managing software.
• "*" (for zero or more characters) and "?" (for a single character) are the wildcards allowed
in the hostname. A hostname can contain multiple wildcard characters. For example:
sw*.??.hp.com.
Restricting Access to Depots
To restrict read access to a depot you must first remove any_other access from the depot and
from the products contained in the depot and the template controlling the products in the depot.
You can restrict access to depot alpine on host drgw:
# swacl -l depot -D any_other @ drgw:/alpine
# swacl -l product -D any_other \* @ drgw:/alpine
# swacl -l global_product_template -D any_other \* \
@ drgw:/alpine
You will then need to add specific users (and then hosts) with read access after removing
any_other from the depot security. The following commands add read access for any user on
hostA to the depot, the products contained in the depot, and future products, respectively.
# swacl -l depot -M other:@hostA:r @ drgw:/alpine
# swacl -l product -M other:@hostA:r \* @ drgw:/alpine
# swacl -l global_product_template -M other:@hostA:r \
@ drgw:/alpine
In the following example, the local superuser disallows all remote users from accessing
/simple_1.depot on swelter, but allow local users to access the depot:
# swacl -l depot -D any_other @ /simple_1.depot
# swacl -l depot -M other:r @ /simple_1.depot
# swacl -l depot @ /simple_1.depot
#
# swacl Depot Access Control List
#
# For depot: swelter:/simple_1.depot
#
# Date: Thu Mar 1 16:19:57 2001
#
# Object Ownership: User= allen
# Group=users
# Realm=swelter.fc.hp.com
#
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