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Operating Systems Solaris Assign Superuser rights to normal user Post 302518246 by petervg on Friday 29th of April 2011 03:13:57 AM
Old 04-29-2011
Tuxian,

Take a look at privileges and the ppriv command in Solaris 10.

You can use RBAC to assign privileges to regular users. Be aware that this might compromise some (all) of your security.

--Peter
 

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priv_names(4)							   File Formats 						     priv_names(4)

NAME
priv_names - privilege definition file SYNOPSIS
/etc/security/priv_names DESCRIPTION
The priv_names file, located in /etc/security, defines the privileges with which a process can be associated. See privileges(5) for the privilege definitions. In that man page, privileges correspond to privilege names in priv_names as shown in the following examples: name in privileges(5) Name in priv_names PRIV_FILE_CHOWN file_chown PRIV_FILE_CHOWN_SELF file_chown_self PRIV_FILE_DAC_EXECUTE file_dac_execute ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ppriv(1), attributes(5), privileges(5) SunOS 5.10 24 Nov 2003 priv_names(4)
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