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Operating Systems Solaris possible to assign limit root task to a userid?
# 8  
Old 04-10-2008
AFAIK, setuid binaries aren't limited to a user. Everyone would then be able to run the security command as root which doesn't match the OP requirements.
# 9  
Old 04-10-2008
so will pfexec do?

of course you have to set up the attributes files.
exec_attr, user_attr, prof_attr <--- those are the files right?
# 10  
Old 04-11-2008
That's it.

I didn't provide a prof_attr sample line. Something like that one will do.

runid:::run the id command as root:
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