opensolaris man page for allocate

allocate(1)							   User Commands						       allocate(1)

NAME
       allocate - device allocation

SYNOPSIS
       allocate [-s] [-w] [-F] [-U uname] [-z zonename] device

       allocate [-s] [-w] [-F] [-U uname] [-z zonename] -g dev-type

DESCRIPTION
       The  allocate  utility  manages	the ownership of devices through its allocation mechanism. It ensures that each device is used by only one
       qualified user at a time.

       The device argument specifies the device to be manipulated. To preserve the integrity of the device's owner, the allocate operation is exe-
       cuted on all the device special files associated with that device.

       The default allocate operation allocates the device special files associated with device to the uid of the current process.

       Only authorized users may allocate a device. The required authorizations are specified in device_allocate(4).

       When the system is configured with Trusted Extensions, allocate runs the clean program for the device before it grants access to the caller
       to that device. For devices with removable media that have a mountable file system, allocate mounts the media if the caller chooses.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -F device	 Force allocates either free or pre-allocated devices. This option is often used with the -U option to allocate/reallocate
			 devices  to  a  specific  user.  Only	those  users that have solaris.device.revoke authorization are allowed to use this
			 option.

       -g dev-type	 Allocates devices with a device-type matching dev-type. The dev-type argument specifies the device type  to  be  operated
			 on.

       -s		 Silent. Suppresses any diagnostic output.

       -U uname 	 Uses  the user ID uname instead of the user ID of the current process when performing the allocate operation. Only a user
			 with the solaris.device.revoke authorization is permitted to use this option.

       The following options are supported with Trusted Extensions:

       -w	      Runs the device cleaning program in a windowing environment. If a windowing version of the program exists, it is used.  Oth-
		      erwise, the standard version is run in a terminal window.

       -z zonename    Allocates device to the zone specified by zonename.

OPERANDS
       The following operands are supported:

       device	 Specifies the name of the device to be allocated.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:

       0	      Successful completion.

       20	      No entry for the specified device.

       other value    An error occurred.

FILES
       /etc/security/device_allocate

       /etc/security/device_maps

       /etc/security/dev/*

       /etc/security/lib/*

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |See below.		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       The invocation is Uncommitted. The options are Uncommitted. The output is Not-an-Interface.

SEE ALSO
       deallocate(1), list_devices(1), bsmconv(1M), dminfo(1M), mkdevalloc(1M), mkdevmaps(1M), device_allocate(4), device_maps(4), attributes(5)

       Controlling Access to Devices

NOTES
       The functionality described in this man page is available only if  Solaris Auditing has been enabled. See bsmconv(1M) for more information.

       On systems configured with Trusted Extensions, the functionality is enabled by default.

       /etc/security/dev, mkdevalloc(1M), and mkdevmaps(1M) might not be supported in a future release of the Solaris Operating Environment.

SunOS 5.11							    30 Apr 2008 						       allocate(1)