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# 1  
Old 09-14-2015
Grant unprivileged user rights to see the output of echo|format but not modify disks
anyone have any idea how do to this with auth_attr?

I suspect if I grant him

Code:
solaris.device.:RO::Device Allocation::help=DevAllocHeader.html

that will work but I'm unsure. Just looking for a second opinion.
# 2  
Old 09-14-2015
Granting access to a specific command in a very exact way is the sort of thing I'd use sudo for. A script that does exactly what you want, which you can grant access to specifically.
# 3  
Old 09-14-2015
Sudo
Thanks but I'm trying to do this within the framework of user_attr, exec_attr.
# 4  
Old 09-15-2015
Enable format command like this :

Code:
echo "formaters:::Format command for formaters:" >> /etc/security/prof_attr
echo "formaters:suser:cmd:::/usr/sbin/format:euid=0 >> /etc/security/exec_attr
# in /etc/user_attr modify the line to add the profile or use usermod command.
john::::type=normal;defaultpriv=basic;profiles=formaters

Remember, the user (in this case john) will have to use pf shell (defined in /etc/passwd or with usermod command)

If you want user to look at the output of format command and not modify disks, you can use root cron to make a list file in intervals you like echo | format > /path/to/format_output.txt readable to them.

Hope that helps
Regards
Peasant.
# 5  
Old 09-15-2015
wouldn't he be able to do pfksh to do this as well?

that's exactly what I was looking for by the way....

thanks.
# 6  
Old 09-15-2015
User can use any pf shell (pfksh, pfbash, pfsh)

Regards.
# 7  
Old 09-16-2015
so I tried to do a variation of this

Code:
echo "formaters:::Format command for formaters:" >> /etc/security/prof_attr
echo "formaters:suser:cmd:::/export/home/john/format_echo.sh:euid=0" >> /etc/security/exec_attr
# in /etc/user_attr modify the line to add the profile or use usermod command.
john::::type=normal;defaultpriv=basic;profiles=formaters

where format_echo.sh is
Code:
#!/usr/bin/pfbash
echo|format

file is 755 and owned by root:johns_group

i've tried to execute the .sh script as john using both pfexec and pkbash and get the following output:

Code:
john@solaris:~$ ./format_echo.sh
Searching for disks...done
No permission (or no disks found)!

I suspect this is because the same issue still applies in that the user doesn't have access to run format. correct?
Last edited by os2mac; 09-16-2015 at 01:38 PM.. Reason: clarity
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