Security

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How you have grown ... sxadm

I remember I first talked at a Solaris day in the Vienna Urania about sxadm for security extension administration. At that time we had one security extension...

Lock it up

This is a quite useful tool. Let's assume you are working with colleagues on a system on their desktop. They are working on their shells as unprivileged users,...

Even more new options for svcbundle

Another addition to svcbundle was the ability to set * user * group * privileges to directly create manifests for SMF that didn't need manual editing to adhere...

Piped sandboxes

I got one question via Twitter: "What if there were a convenient way to run typical Unix commands in a sandbox? E.g. grep, awk, sed, etc. Could they work as...

Nested netgroups for fun and profit

Imagine you have several hundred systems to manage. The systems are for separate projects and each project has different teams of admins and only assigned...

Setting up LDAP for Solaris 11

Some time ago I was asked to provide a walkthrough for the configuration of LDAP in Solaris 11. It's a walkthrough on how to set up LDAP name services for...