<div dir="auto">I do agree with JAB on this one. But my first thought was if they aren't already using a solution... Why not just SuperPutty.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In our environment we modify the two wrapper programs and we do our GPFS control via a non root system ID, say "gpfs" user with SSH enabled on that ID.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So modify the remote shell command and remote file copy commands to a modified perl script, leveraging that user's ssh is and access... And we do our environments equivalent of sudo to launch that user's needed commands as privileged.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In our space we needed mmremote, mmsdrrestore, scp, and echo to run as privileged commands. And everything worked fine from there once those were granted.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Trial and error, we put a debug log into that script so we could figure out which commands it was actually calling.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Using copilot was able to convert my Perl script to Python.. and have AI explain it back to me.. we probably haven't look at this code in 7+ years, it's been pretty reliable.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hope that helps!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 9:19 AM Steve Daniels <<a href="mailto:sadaniel@us.ibm.com">sadaniel@us.ibm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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