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Operating Systems Solaris Adding a user twice to Solaris OS Post 302413804 by kduffin on Saturday 17th of April 2010 09:52:54 AM
Old 04-17-2010
Agreed, but RBAC is always going to be there; most shops seem to have sudo in place as well. I tend to go at every problem from a 'give as little privilege as possible'. No reason to give a user a sledge hammer when all they need is a screw driver.

Cheers,
Keith
 

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polkit-is-privileged(1M)				  System Administration Commands				  polkit-is-privileged(1M)

NAME
polkit-is-privileged - check PolicyKit privileges SYNOPSIS
polkit-is-privileged [-hvV] -u user -p privilege [-r resource] DESCRIPTION
The polkit-is-privileged command queries system policy to determine whether a user is allowed for a given privilege and resource. The resource name can be omitted. On the Solaris operating system, RBAC authorizations names should be used as privilege names. Currently, the only consumer of PolicyKit is hald(1M). OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -h, --help Display list of options and exit. -p privilege, --privilege privilege Name of privilege associated with user. Command tests for this privilege. -r resource, --resource resource Name of resource associated with user and privilege. Command tests for this resource. -u user, --user user User name or user id that is tested for. -v, --verbose Verbose mode. -V, --version Displays version number. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWhalr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
auths(1), profiles(1), hald(1M), getauthattr(3SECDB), auth_attr(4), policy.conf(4), prof_attr(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 22 Aug 2006 polkit-is-privileged(1M)
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