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Less known Solaris features: RBAC and Privileges

Monday, February 4. 2008

I´ve wrote a quite long tutorial about RBAC and privileges. I had to divide it into 4 seperate parts:

PS: The topic is quite complex, thus i simplified some coherences. I hope i didn´t oversimplified them ...

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 16:57 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (2)

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One of my first tutorials was the tutorial about RBAC. In this new tutorial i want to come back to this topic. In the RBAC tutorial i used su to assume a different role. But Solaris offers an additional way to work with the privileges of a different role.

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Making Apache privilege aware
Maybe you remember my RBAC/Privileges-Tutorial in the the LKSF series. In the third part i described how to take away some privileges from the apache processes. But this takes the concept a whole step farther. Nick Kew announced on the Apache developer ma

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regarding privileges:

I will never forget a date at a major customer in germany. I was supposed to install a systems-management package. They put me in front of a HP-system, gave me the root password and left for lunch.
After they came back they asked me: "Everything worked fine? by the way: this is our SAP-production system, hopefully you did not screw anything up?"

#1 Frank on 2008-02-04 18:04 (Reply)

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