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Title
Privilege Manager install on RHEL 7 does not add all required shell paths to /etc/shells -
Description
When Privilege Manager for Unix is installed on RHEL 7 the PM shells appear in /sbin and /usr/sbin, however only the shells in /sbin are configured in the /etc/shells file. By default only /usr/sbin is set in PATH on RHEL7, and so users are unable to run the PM shells.
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Cause
In RHEL7 the /sbin directory was removed and replaced with a symlink to /usr/sbin. Privilege Manager configures everything in /sbin and so it only adds shells in that directory to the shells file. Because of the symlink that RHEL7 creates, this causes our shells to show up in both locations but the shells file is not configured to match that. -
Resolution
WORKAROUND
1) Update the /etc/shells file to include:
/usr/sbin/pmcsh
/usr/sbin/pmksh
/usr/sbin/pmsh2) Update /etc/profile so that /sbin appears in the PATH before /usr/sbin
STATUS
Enhancement request number 0006557 has been submitted to Development for consideration in a future release. -
Change Request
0006557