>It seems to be forbidden to log into a rule directly, but how is this
>impleted? Does the 'login' program check /etc/user_attr and forbids
>a login into a role directly?

It's implemented through a pam module (pam_roles.so.1) which
checks when authenticating a role whether this is a login or
secondary auhentications.

>Other places mention that a user may "assume" a role. But there is no 
>hint on how this could be done. Is this done via the "su" command?
>If yes, is then the su man page incopmplete?

"su", yes.

>
>BTW: the current result is that I am now able to run cdrecord in root-less
>mode via pfexec.

Which should be possible without roles but just the appropriate
profile and additions to exec_attr.

Casper
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