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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 18, 2019

Provide a workaround to not use /tmp on Linux/Unix with EXEC permission

To avoid bug referenced PH08176 CANNOT UPLOAD CSV OR XLS WHEN /TMP IS MOUNTED AS NON-EXEC the /tmp directory must have EXEC permission (Linux/Unix)

  • Guest
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    Sep 16, 2020

    Is there no way to point either JVM, or WLP to a directory other than /tmp? No parameter settings exist?

  • Guest
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    Apr 6, 2020

    This is not something that can feasibly be addressed.

    The Cognos Anlaytics' Compute Service was built using Apache Hadoop and Spark, and they both have platform-specific native libraries that are extracted to temp directory on startup (we cannot change this behaviour). The OS requires shared libraries to exist on a mount point with exec permission. The noexec flag prevents the native code to be linked into the JVM at runtime, causing the failure when these libraries are first touched (typically the first query to Compute Service).

  • Guest
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    Sep 25, 2019

    Hello, we've installed a Cognos Analytics system on premises in a large organization that currently enhances/reinforces security on unix/linux system and demands that the /tmp FS be mounted in no-exec mode. We currently have a derogative rule but a future team may decide to revoke it.

    We try to avoid to alter the snappy path directly into the code as it would not be maintained by cognos and could have undesirable side-effects which we can not anticipate.

    We need a better, Cognos-managed option allowing us to run the snappy.so in another, non-system location with similar effects to secure the run of our Cognos systems.

     

    Thank you

  • Guest
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    Apr 18, 2019

    Attached PDF specifies at 1.1.5 page 34 : Ensure noexec option set on /tmp partition