Why Does "imsimta Restart Smtp" Require Root Access On One System And Not Another? (Doc ID 2134973.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 05, 2019

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Why does imsimta restart smtp require root access on one system, but not on another system?

I understand that doing "imsimta restart" should require root because it needs to start dispatcher which needs to start as root.
But doing "imsimta restart smtp" does not restart dispatcher.  It only tells dispatcher to restart (some of) its child processes.  So it should not require root.

I have found that on some systems, it does not require root.  But, on this older system (and possibly others), it does.

The message we receive is the following:

$ imsimta restart smtp
Must be root to run command

Could this be due to the platform (Sparc vs. x86) or could it be related to the version of Solaris (Solaris 10 vs. Solaris 11)?

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