Bug 698956 - 2.3. Running SystemTap Scripts contains outdated information about systemtap permission groups
Summary: 2.3. Running SystemTap Scripts contains outdated information about systemtap ...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-SystemTap_Beginners_Guide
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jacquelynn East
QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Reported: 2011-04-22 12:42 UTC by Petr Muller
Modified: 2016-09-20 02:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-05-24 06:02:34 UTC
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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.
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