Master Role

Is it necessary to have TeamSite master role apart from OS administrator rights to perform following tasks on a TeamSite server:

1. Install TeamSite.
2. Perform backup/restore on the server.
3. Apply patches & upgrade software.

Regards
PHD

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tvaughan

All those operations you listed (at least in Solaris) are done by root. Or, if not root, someone with a buttload of access to the filesystem.

Whereas the "master" role is more of a TeamSite ACL construct, I think Interwoven recommends that user 'root' be in the 'master.uid' file. I do not have that setup, and I've never experienced a problem.

I'm cursed with not having root rights, but with having an extensive sudo file, so to do the 3 things you listed, I typically telnet to the box as the master account, and sudo all the commands so they run as root.

Does that help?
Tom

Bryan_K

Its important (and difficult at first) to distinguish between a server admin and the TeamSite master role. The master role is used within TeamSite to allow management of branches and workareas. It is not required to run a backup or restore, and certainly not to install TeamSite, since you cant have a master.uid until TS has been installed.

In the NT world at least, the OS does not care about your TS roles, and does not do any permission checking based on it.