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Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Mail
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 20, 2012

RELATED IDEAS

Reduce permissions required

We would highly appreciate if you could investigate the real permission requirements for the backup service account.

Organisatio Level requirement is too high, other vendors are currently investigating and providing test patches.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 1, 2014

    In DP for Exchange 4.1.1 we provide support for Microsoft Exchange role-based access control to limit rights available to backup and restore administrators and automatic validation of permissions during configuration.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 28, 2014

    Thank you for submitting this request. We apologize for the delay in responding. This is in alignment with our current multi-year strategy and may be made available in a future release. This is not a statement of commitment to deliver as IBM's intent is subject to change. We will provide information to this request to reflect any updates.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 13, 2013

    We recently found out that using the commandline those permissions are not required. It is just the GUI that needs them.

    So the solution would be just to reduce the permissions needed in the gui to those used in the command.

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