Solaris isn't Linux

[John Feole]

Some pretty good reference material here on RBAC:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/rbac/

JFeole
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Tom Buskey wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Nigel Stewart <nigels at nigels.com 
> <mailto:nigels at nigels.com>> 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 :-)
>
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