LS: Linux/Unix - minimal rights

[Rocketscience]

Hi there,

as a full ssh/root access is almost impossible to get in our environment, we would need to know the /least/minimal/ rights for Linux/Unix machines for running a software inventory.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thank you so much
Mat

[Rocketscience]

Understood. Thank you.

[Hemoco]

You cannot customize the SSH scanning procedure, if this is what you're asking. Lansweeper will always try to run dmidecode.

[Rocketscience]

Hi,

After closer investigation, this looks promising.

Nevertheless, one more question came up:

The account has no sudo rights and produces syslog entries therefore.
Is there a way to disable sudo/using dmidecode ?

Thx
Matthias

[Rocketscience]

Hi,

that's great. We will look into this and investigate.

Thank you so much.
Kind regards
Matthias

[Hemoco · Accepted solution]

Below is a list of commands used to scan *nix based systems. Depending on your distribution, not all commands will be used.

cat
df
dpkg
echo
equery
hal-find-by-property
hal-get-property
ifconfig
lspci
grep
pciconf
pkg_info
rpm
sudo dmidecode
sysctl
type
uname
uptime
which


Full root access is not necessary, but using an account with sudo rights is recommended. Sudo is only required to run dmidecode and if sudo is not installed Lansweeper will try to run dmidecode without sudo. If dmidecode cannot be executed for some reason, some hardware information will not be scanned, but the rest of the scanning process will still be executed.