Is it possible to grant write privileges to a user on a directory with out having to add the user to a group or make the user the owner of the directory?
My background is in Windows and in Windows you can grant specific privileges to a user without having to put the user in a group or making the... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to give a non-root user the right to start IBM HTTP Server, the web server is listening on port 80, but for AIX, ports under 1024 are privilege ports which can be used only by root.
/usr/IBMIHS/bin# ./apachectl start
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address :::80... (1 Reply)
Hello experts I am new to Unix.
Env : HPUX
I need to create a user say testuser such that it does not have access to file/directories from the other group i.e the last 3 digits .
How do I do that.
Reason for such a request :-
I have an existing user oracle which has default umask... (3 Replies)
OS Version: Sun Solaris version 9
Other than root, we need operation to manage printer queue by using following command:
lprm -P
cancel
enable/disable
What privilege should be given?
Pls advise.
Thank you. (4 Replies)
Upon trying to open up permissions between 2 accounts in Snow Leopard I caused the os to crash - restarting/turning off then on did nothing - the os would no longer load. I took it into Apple where they got the os back up and running with a slight twist. The secondary drive was flagged (a little... (0 Replies)
I am planning to implement sudo for users.
Under , it looks I have to put the users who need to have sudo access:
What are the recommended for users? I don't think I need to give the ALL privilege (i.e ) to AIX users.
I'd like to know the commonly used privilege specification for sudo... (9 Replies)
I am planning to implement sudo for users.
Under , it looks I have to put the users who need to have sudo access:
What are the recommended for users? I don't think I need to give the ALL privilege (i.e ) to AIX users.
I'd like to know the commonly used privilege specification for sudo... (1 Reply)
Hi
I need to assign proc_owner privilege to particular user through RBAC. How can I assign this privilege to user, I need help on this.
Further I need to understand if I give this proc_owner privilege to particular user, what kind of control user will get on other user or system processes... (7 Replies)
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priv_getbyname
priv_getbyname(9F) Kernel Functions for Drivers priv_getbyname(9F)NAME
priv_getbyname - map a privilege name to a number
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/cred.h>
int priv_getbyname(const char *priv, int flags);
INTERFACE LEVEL
Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI).
PARAMETERS
priv name of the privilege
flags flags, must be zero or PRIV_ALLOC
DESCRIPTION
The priv_getbyname() function maps a privilege name to a privilege number for use with the priv_*() kernel interfaces.
If PRIV_ALLOC is passed as a flag parameter, an attempt is made to allocate a privilege if it is not yet defined. The newly allocated priv-
ilege number is returned.
Privilege names can be specified with an optional priv_ prefix, which is stripped.
Privilege names are case insensitive but allocated privileges preserve case.
Allocated privileges can be at most {PRIVNAME_MAX} characters long and can contain only alphanumeric characters and the underscore charac-
ter.
RETURN VALUES
This function returns the privilege number, which is greater than or equal to 0, if it succeeds. It returns a negative error number if an
error occurs.
ERRORS
EINVAL This might be caused by any of the following
o The flags parameter is invalid.
o The specified privilege does not exist.
o The priv parameter contains invalid characters.
ENOMEM There is no room to allocate another privilege.
ENAMETOOLONG An attempt was made to allocate a privilege that was longer than {PRIVNAME_MAX} characters.
CONTEXT
This functions can be called from user and kernel contexts.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |All |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Committed |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO attributes(5), privileges(5)
Writing Device Drivers
SunOS 5.11 11 Mar 2004 priv_getbyname(9F)