I administer several very old HP 9000 servers that originally were running hp ux 9.04 and are currently at 10.20 with no hope of going to 11.x. My original task was to access the servers remotely via a mech id and with sudo abilities, boot the server. I discovered sudo was not on the servers which leads to 2 questions. 1. Is there any other way to boot a servers without being root? 2. Where can I get a compiled version of sudo 1.6? Thanks folks.
I cannot remember if it is true for non trusted boxes (what model?) but at the time on the 2 10.20 I was in charge of, I configured via SAM the right for myself to reboot, and on trusted machines its vital! For if you had not done so and someone by trying to connect root (default = 3 times...) and failed you were stuck with a root account disabled.. (OK you can cheat if you have access and have a real console, but even then lets say someone changed root passwd and were not informed, you would be the one who will disable root account and have no possibilities to enable it...). Only way out is by rebooting - going single user...
That said, at the time I used to recompile sudo from source... in order to allow members of a chosen group to use sudo without passwd and timeout (for batches and for myself...). Was: Sudo version 1.5.9p4