Attempting to run dxcmd was yielding this error on one of our IDM servers:<\/p>\n
Enter user name: foo.user Using the command<\/p>\n turned up a “permission denied” error while trying to open The chosen fix was to remove world-readable attribute on all servers, and use “sudo dxcmd” to eliminate the file permissions problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Attempting to run dxcmd was yielding this error on one of our IDM servers: DirXML Command Line Utility version 4.0.2.1 Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Novell Inc., All Rights Reserved Enter user name: foo.user Enter user’s password: java.lang.Error: Unable to initialize DClient at novell.jclient.JClient.initializeDclient(Native Method) at novell.jclient.JClient.initialize(JClient.java:906) at com.novell.nds.dirxml.util.DxCommand.commandLine(DxCommand.java:419) at com.novell.nds.dirxml.util.DxCommand.main(DxCommand.java:391) Using the command strace -f dxcmd … Continue reading “dxcmd error “Unable to initialize DClient” caused by config file permissions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[33,32],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edirectory","category-sysadmin","tag-dxcmd","tag-strace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDirXML Command Line Utility
\nversion 4.0.2.1
\nCopyright (C) 2003-2011 Novell Inc., All Rights Reserved<\/code><\/p>\n
\nEnter user’s password:
\njava.lang.Error: Unable to initialize DClient
\nat novell.jclient.JClient.initializeDclient(Native Method)
\nat novell.jclient.JClient.initialize(JClient.java:906)
\nat com.novell.nds.dirxml.util.DxCommand.commandLine(DxCommand.java:419)
\nat com.novell.nds.dirxml.util.DxCommand.main(DxCommand.java:391)<\/p>\nstrace -f dxcmd -user foo.user -password S00perS33cr3t<\/code><\/p>\n\/etc\/opt\/novell\/nici64.cfg<\/code>. On other servers, that file was world-readable; on the problem server, it was owner- and group-readable only.<\/p>\n