[ofa-general] What IB utillity can be run as normal user ?

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 06:19 +0000, Tang, Changqing wrote:
> Hi:
>         Can anyone tell if 'ibdiagpath' needs root to run ? I run it as root, it prints
> out some useful info, but if I run as normal user, it fails.

It all depends on how udev is setup for umad access. This is the default
(and recommended) setting.

>         The other IB utilities under /usr/bin are:
> ib-bond
> ib_clock_test
> ibdiagnet
> ibdiagui
> ibdmchk
> ibdmsh
> ibdmtr
> ibmsquit
> ibmssh
> ibnlparse
> 
>         the man page does not say that. Do all these require root ?

Any of the above tools which are part of ibutils likely work similarly.
BTW, the maintainer for ibutils is Mellanox (Oren Kladnitsky
<orenk at dev.mellanox.co.il>).

-- Hal

>         Thanks.
> 
> --CQ
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