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
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)