On 2015-01-23, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > >> I do prefer 3ware web RAID admin >> interface anything else (it more transparently prevents me from making >> fatal blunders - probably just me). > > No, not just you. tw_cli is needlessly confusing in its command structure. Just you wait till you get to the MegaRAID command line! It makes tw_cli seem like echo in comparison. I found the 3ware web interface too clunky for my purposes, so I forced myself to learn tw_cli. Once I used it regularly I found it to be mostly usable. I've yet to do this with megacli or storcli, and those are so much more complicated than tw_cli, so I haven't learned them very well yet. But (getting back a little to the original topic) getting to the 3ware web interface should not require root privileges on the client, since it's just the browser connecting to the 3ware http(s) listener. The OP seemed to be ranting about a prompt for an administrative password from the desktop environment. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us