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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 24, 2022

Spectrum Protect Plus file level restore sudo previleges

Hi IBM,

We are trying to enable file level restore on SPP and we are following the below URL.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spp/10.1.8?topic=requirements-file-indexing-restore

One of the pre-rquisite is to enable superuser privileges for the agent user for which we have to set the !requiretty setting. At the end of the /etc/sudoers configuration file, add the following lines:
Defaults: sppagent !requiretty
sppagent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL


The above requisite is a concern for Security.
They can't give such a superuser privilege to us because that would mean the privileges can be manipulated.

So, do we have any remediation for this Security concern available?

Regards,
Prasath

Idea priority High
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    Feb 9, 2022

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.