Man pages in the case directory indicate that Primary Administrator
(root) is required to run these commands. Why? It seems like these
commands only access information which should be considered public, so
that anyone can run them. I realize that there is an issue of accessing
the underlying device nodes, but perhaps RBAC can be used to make these
commands available to anyone? (Or perhaps the underlying device node
can be provided in "safe, read-only" type of mode?)
-- Garrett
James Walker wrote:
> I'm sponsoring this familiarity case for Pat Bredenberg. The requested
> release binding is minor. The man pages have been posted in the materials
> directory.
>
> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI
> This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems
> 1. Introduction
> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
> pmtools
> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
> Author: Pat Bredenberg
> 1.3 Date of This Document:
> 25 August, 2009
> 4. Technical Description
>
> Summary
> =======
>
> pmtools[1] provides utilities to access, extract, and convert ACPI power
> management tables to a human readable format. This allows the user to
> directly obtain these tables to view what ACPI information is presented
> to the kernel by the BIOS. The tables provide an amalgamation of
> information about a given platform. For example, the kernel uses this
> data (when possible) to define a platform's NUMA configuration by making
> use of the SRAT (System Resource Affinity Table) and the SLIT (System
> Locality Information Table).
>
> pmtools 20071116 will be integrated into the SFW consolidation as part
> of this proposal, and will be installed as SUNWpmtools. This project
> requests a minor release binding.
>
> Note: pmtools is architecture specific. Only i386 packages will be
> delivered.
>
> Dependencies
> ============
>
> None
>
> Interfaces
> ==========
>
> Exported Interfaces Classification Comment
> ------------------- -------------- -------------------
> SUNWpmtools Uncommitted Package (i386 only)
>
> /usr/bin/acpidump Uncommitted Command
> /usr/bin/acpixtract Uncommitted Command
> /usr/bin/madt Uncommitted Command
>
> Imported Interfaces Classification Comment
> ------------------- -------------- -------------------
> None
>
> Reference Documents
> ===================
>
> [1] http://lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/utilities.php
>
> 6. Resources and Schedule
> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information
> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
> SFW
> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open
>
>
