Yes, you can enable the symauth on Symm and give the restricted access to the root user.  regards, Saurabh
I'm trying to confirm that using symauth for Symmetrix authorization will block the "root" user from being able to execute Symcli commands.  The customer's requirement:  Everyone has the sudo privileges on Symcli server including Unix, Backup and Storage Admins. Their purpose is to restrict the box so that only Storage admin can run the commands , not even root users, can't I just enable user authorization with Symauth on the server and then just add the storage admin users to the Admin roles, etc...  Won't this block the "root" user from being able to execute symcli commands?   Can I put “root” in the symauth table and give it a lesser role (like auditor, monitor, etc..)?  
Question on using symauth and if it disables "root" from being able to run SE 
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