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admin(4) File Formats admin(4)NAMEadmin - installation defaults fileDESCRIPTIONadmin is a generic name for an ASCII file that defines default installation actions by assigning values to installation parameters. For example, it allows administrators to define how to proceed when the package being installed already exists on the system. /var/sadm/install/admin/default is the default admin file delivered with this release. The default file is not writable, so to assign val- ues different from this file, create a new admin file. There are no naming restrictions for admin files. Name the file when installing a package with the -a option of pkgadd(1M). If the -a option is not used, the default admin file is used. Each entry in the admin file is a line that establishes the value of a parameter in the following form: param=value All of the parameters listed below can be defined in an admin file, but it is not required to assign values to all of these. If a value is not assigned, pkgadd(1M) asks the installer how to proceed. The valid parameters and their possible values are shown below except as noted. They can be specified in any order. Any of these parameters (except the mail and proxy parameters) can be assigned the value ask, which means that, when the parameter is reached during the installa- tion sequence, the installer is notified and asked to supply instructions (see NOTES). basedir Indicates the base directory where relocatable packages are to be installed. If there is no basedir entry in the file, the installer will be prompted for a path name, as if the file contained the entry basedir=ask. This parameter can also be set to default (entry is basedir=default). In this instance, the package is installed into the base directory specified by the BASEDIR parameter in the pkginfo(4) file. mail Defines a list of users to whom mail should be sent following installation of a package. If the list is empty, no mail is sent. If the parameter is not present in the admin file, the default value of root is used. The ask value cannot be used with this parameter. runlevel Indicates resolution if the run level is not correct for the installation or removal of a package. Options are: nocheck Do not check for run level. quit Abort installation if run level is not met. conflict Specifies what to do if an installation expects to overwrite a previously installed file, thus creating a conflict between packages. Options are: nocheck Do not check for conflict; files in conflict will be overwritten. quit Abort installation if conflict is detected. nochange Override installation of conflicting files; they will not be installed. setuid Checks for executables which will have setuid or setgid bits enabled after installation. Options are: nocheck Do not check for setuid executables. quit Abort installation if setuid processes are detected. nochange Override installation of setuid processes; processes will be installed without setuid bits enabled. action Determines if action scripts provided by package developers contain possible security impact. Options are: nocheck Ignore security impact of action scripts. quit Abort installation if action scripts may have a negative security impact. partial Checks to see if a version of the package is already partially installed on the system. Options are: nocheck Do not check for a partially installed package. quit Abort installation if a partially installed package exists. instance Determines how to handle installation if a previous version of the package (including a partially installed instance) already exists. Options are: quit Exit without installing if an instance of the package already exists (does not overwrite exist- ing packages). overwrite Overwrite an existing package if only one instance exists. If there is more than one instance, but only one has the same architecture, it overwrites that instance. Otherwise, the installer is prompted with existing instances and asked which to overwrite. unique Do not overwrite an existing instance of a package. Instead, a new instance of the package is created. The new instance will be assigned the next available instance identifier. idepend Controls resolution if the package to be installed depends on other packages and if other packages depend on the one to be installed. Options are: nocheck Do not check package dependencies. quit Abort installation if package dependencies are not met. rdepend Controls resolution if other packages depend on the package to be removed. Also determines behavior if regis- tered products components to be removed. See libwsreg(3LIB) and prodreg(1M) for a definition of product com- ponents. Options are: nocheck Do not check package or product dependencies. quit Abort removal if package or product dependencies are not met. space Controls resolution if disk space requirements for package are not met. Options are: nocheck Do not check space requirements (installation fails if it runs out of space). quit Abort installation if space requirements are not met. authentication Controls resolution when a datastream package with signature is to be installed. Options are: nocheck Do not verify package signature. This also disables the use of the Online Certificate Status Pro- tocol (OCSP) to validate the package's signing certificate. quit Abort installation if package signature cannot be verified. networktimeout Number of seconds to wait before giving up a network connection when downloading a package. This entry must be a positive integer. If not present, the default value of 60 is used. networkretries Number of times to retry a failed network connection when downloading a package. This entry must be a posi- tive integer. If not present, the default value of 5 is used. keystore Location of trusted certificates used when downloading packages over SSL and when verifying signatures on packages. This is the base directory of the certificate location for trusted certificates used when validat- ing digital signatures on packages. For example, if this setting is /var/sadm/security, then pkgadd will use /var/sadm/security/pkgadd/truststore, then /var/sadm/security/truststore when searching for trusted certifi- cates. See KEYSTORE LOCATIONS and KEYSTORE AND CERTIFICATE FORMATS in pkgadd(1M) for details on certificate store format and usage. proxy The default proxy to use when installing packages from the network. Currently, only HTTP or HTTPS proxies are supported. If this field is blank or nonexistent, then no proxy will be used. rscriptalt=root | noaccess Determines the user that will run request scripts. This parameter can have either of the values described below. See pkgadd(1M) for details on the conditions under which this parameter is useful. root Run request script as user install, if such a user exists, with the privileges of that user. Oth- erwise, run script as user root, with UID equal to 0 and with all/zone privileges. (See zones(5).) noaccess Run request script as user install, if such a user exists, with the privileges of that user. Oth- erwise, run script as user noaccess, with the basic privileges of the unprivileged user noaccess. If this parameter is not present or has a null value, the user noaccess is assumed. Likewise, if this parame- ter is set to anything other than the values described here, a warning is issued, and noaccess is assumed. rscriptalt is not present in the default admin file, /var/sadm/install/admin/default. In this case, request scripts are run as the user noaccess.EXAMPLESExample 1 Default admin File The default admin file, named default, is shipped with user-, group-, and world-read privileges(444). Its contents are as follows: mail= instance=unique partial=ask runlevel=ask idepend=ask rdepend=ask space=ask setuid=ask conflict=ask action=ask basedir=default authentication=quit networktimeout=10 networkretries=3 keystore=/var/sadm/security proxy= Example 2 Sample admin file. Below is a sample admin file. basedir=default runlevel=quit conflict=quit setuid=quit action=quit partial=quit instance=unique idepend=quit rdepend=quit space=quit authentication=quit networktimeout=10 networkretries=5 keystore=/opt/certs proxy=syrinx.eng.example.com:8080FILESThe default admin file is consulted during package installation when no other admin file is specified. /var/sadm/install/admin/default default admin fileATTRIBUTESSee attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWpkgcmdsr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+SEE ALSOpkgadd(1M), prodreg(1M), libwsreg(3LIB), pkginfo(4), attributes(5), zones(5)NOTESThe value ask should not be defined in an admin file that will be used for non-interactive installation (because, by definition, there is no installer interaction). Doing so causes installation to fail at the point when input is needed. SunOS 5.11 20 Dec 2004 admin(4)
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