This integration occurred weeks ago, but since build 98 is just now available, now is as good a time as any to point out this networking related change in OpenSolaris.
The integration of the following in build 98: PSARC 2008/473 Fine-Grained Privileges for Datalink Administration http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/473/ allows unprivileged users to use most of the dladm show-* subcommands. You can now use show-link, show-linkprop, show-phys, show-vlan, and show-aggr as a regular unprivileged user in the global zone. The PSARC materials contain more detail on the change. A follow-up integration by Sowmini Varhadan and the WiFi driver team to re-work how WiFi properties are handled will also leverage this change to allow show-wifi as an unprivileged user. In essence, while this work has benefits for the user of the dladm command, it's also a building block for other UIs such as the upcoming NWAM Phase 1 GUI. Because of this change, the GUI will be able to report on networking status without needing to communicate with an intermediary process with elevated privileges. Enjoy, -Seb
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