Solaris™ 9 System Administrator Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 310-014 and 310-015)

Managing the RBAC

The RBAC can be managed by either the User Tools of the Solaris Management Console (smc) or the following command-line utilities:

• auths(1)— Displays authorizations assigned to a user account.

• profiles(1)— Displays profiles assigned to a user account.

• roles(1)— Displays roles assigned to a user account.

• roleadd(1M)— Adds a role definition.

• roledel(1M)— Deletes a role definition.

• rolemod(1M)— Modifies a role definition.

The User Tools window of the Solaris Management Console is shown in Figure 12.2. Even though the smc is the preferred method to make RBAC changes, only the command-line utilities are addressed by the test objectives. Therefore, using the Solaris Management Console is not covered in this study guide. Be aware that ...