Chapter 17. Role-Based Access Control
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Granting superuser access to nonroot users has always been an issue in UNIX systems. In the past, you had to rely on a third-party package, Sudo, to provide this functionality. The problem was that Sudo was an unsupported piece of freeware that had to be downloaded from the Internet and installed onto your system. Also, Sudo is an application and not an integrated facility; thus, it is not as secure. In extreme cases, the system administrator had to set the UID permission bit on the file so that a user could execute the command as root.
With role-based access control (RBAC) in the Solaris 9 operating ...
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