Bug 698956

Summary:	2.3. Running SystemTap Scripts contains outdated information about systemtap permission groups
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Petr Muller <pmuller>
Component:	doc-SystemTap_Beginners_Guide	Assignee:	Jacquelynn East <jeast>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Version:	6.1	CC:	ohudlick, rlandman
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Description Petr Muller 2011-04-22 12:42:40 UTC

Description of problem:

The section '2.3. Running SystemTap Scripts' of the Beginner's guide contains an overview of systemtap permission groups 'stapdev' and 'stapusr'. The page claims that being in 'stapdev' group suffices to run systemtap scripts. This was true for RHEL6.0, but this was changed in the meantime due to security issues.

I think the user now has to be in *both* 'stapdev' and 'stapusr' groups to be able to run staprun (and therefore, stap) on arbitrary systemtap script/module. But it would be best to work on this section with systemtap devs.