Bigfix Unix agent install permission

Usage and Config Platform
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Hi,

Anyone could tell me about installing Unix client by using sudo needs what command for sudo?
Customer can not use root account. So we have to create a sudo account. But there is no doc for permission command for sudo.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_cdt_prereqs.html

Please hlep~~
Thanks.

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Not sure of the question. When using sudo, the system is granting su permission (root) to that account if they are in the sudoers.

See https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-sudo/

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Hi~
Because customer can not give us the root permission. So they ask us if we could know what the sudo permission or command should provide for installing BESAgent.

Thanks.

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Hi,

Anyone could tell me what command should give to the account for installing Bigfix agent in sudoers file?
Like /usr/bin/passwd,/usr/sbin/useradd …etc.

Thanks.

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There was a deployment task in BigFix Labs to deploy the agent using sudo (iirc) for AIX. This seems to not be kept current anymore. Instead, you are expected to ssh onto AIX as root, to perform the install.

Commenting here as I hope the deploy “agent” will at least be allowed to “su” as the latest openssh configs, by default, do not allow login using password.

as to what is needed in sudoers - depending on what is in the rpm post script (I will assume it is there) - maybe it is as simple as adding rpm -i to sudoers - and “rpm install” as root, does the rest. (AIX uses installp, so quite different, and afaik, BECClient does not need a separate UID - runs as root.