Roles and permission requirement for Protection Engine user account

Products

• Protection Engine for Cloud Services

Issue/Introduction

What are the roles and permission requirement for Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) user account for installation on Linux platform?

Environment

SPE on Linux platform

Resolution

1. Can we set the role of SPE account as (root) NOPASSWD instead of ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD?
- ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD is a requirement and changing it might break the functioning of SPE.

2. Does the installation require sudo access for the SPE account on the SPE server?
- Yes, this selection during installation decides which permissions are to be applied. Selecting "No" will ask for the alternate account credentials and if the alternate account will have sudo access then it will not change the SPE behavior.
During installation either requires the root user or a standard user with sudo access so that some specific actions like creating avdefs, speservice are successfully performed.