Some pretty good reference material here on RBAC: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/rbac/
JFeole -- Tom Buskey wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Nigel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > >> Well, I suppose it means anyone with admin rights would at > least be > >> able to have different desktops. *shrug* > >> > >> > > Essentially, Ubuntu uses sudo. So, when a desktop user with > admin rights > > wants to do something that requires root access, the user's > password is > > requested, not the root password. > > > > There are a lot of reasons you do not want to run as root for normal > > operations. > > I installed OpenSolaris the other day and fully expected to > have > sudo. It wasn't there. My Linux-based reaction was - > negative. :-) > > > sudo is available on the "Solaris Companion" DVD. > > Sun has developed RBAC (Role Based Access Control). There's a command > called pfexec that will work like sudo mostly. > > I found I wasn't able to su to root on OpenSolaris 200805-1 because of > RBAC either. I had to edit a number of files to change the security > to act more like Linux. > > On a similar note, sudo isn't installed on my Windows system :-) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
