Solaris 11 Assigning Privileges to Users

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Channel: theurbanpenguin · 2014 · Education

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Oracle Solaris 11 has a security mechanism within RBAC that goes beyond the normal OS security we may expect to find. We may want a user account to be able to back-up the complete file-system for this they will need to be able to read all files. It is a mammoth task to ensure the user has read access to all files so often the root account may be used for this. Using privileges within RBAC we can assign the user file_dac_read which allows them to read files even though they may not be in the files ACL. Now we maintain the security that we need using the concept of Least Privilege

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