Release notes > Installation > Supported users for patching

Supported users for patching

You can install an SA patch as one of the following users:

User Name Machine Type Description
root user Local A root user.
regular user Local

A regular user who has permissions to invoke commands as root with sudo capabilities.

When using a regular user for installing or rolling back a core patch, make sure you invoke the command using sudo. For example: sudo <distro>/ opsware_installer/hpsa_patch.sh

root user Remote A root user, including root ssh access.
regular user Remote

A regular user with sudo capabilities (including user ssh access).

Password-less sudo is not supported for regular users with sudo capabilities.

Settings required for regular users with sudo capabilities

Make the following changes to the /etc/sudoers file on every machine where the user installs SA. In the example below, the user is bob.

Defaults lecture=never

bob ALL= (ALL) ALL

General settings for user names

Make sure user names:

  • are portable across systems conforming to POSIX.1-2008. The value is composed of characters from the portable filename character set. Use the following set of characters for portable filename: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . _
  • do not contain a hyphen (-) character as the first character.