> Why exactly would there be a need to 'dumb down' documentation for > people on the outside?.
I don't think that was Ed's point. I think he was looking for sufficient context in which to read the docs. As I said, when I wrote most of this stuff, it was for people who alread understood. Perhaps unfortunately, most internal stuff in the past has been limited to internal only distribution -- at least until it was shipped. That's changed and dragging the internal stuff out sometimes is more challenging because not all the context is easially available. I think the two primary references are available and should be linked into to the opensolaris docs soon: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/ais.html http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/wp-rbac/wp-rbac.pdf Gary..