[Info-vax] SYSMAN design question

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00496b63$0$22465$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> Is there a reason why they designed SYSMAN to not use the specified
> username when executing on the local node ?

   What makes you think it's not?  Using that username is not the same
   as using that username's privileges.  IIRC SYSMAN will start on the
   remote nodes using the same privileges as the process that's running 
   it locally, and if you can have more and need to have more, you have 
   to turn them on.