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Preface

Part I Security Overview

1.  Security Services (Overview)

Part II System, File, and Device Security

2.  Managing Machine Security (Overview)

3.  Controlling Access to Systems (Tasks)

4.  Virus Scanning Service (Tasks)

5.  Controlling Access to Devices (Tasks)

6.  Verifying File Integrity by Using BART (Tasks)

7.  Controlling Access to Files (Tasks)

Part III Roles, Rights Profiles, and Privileges

8.  Using Roles and Privileges (Overview)

9.  Using Role-Based Access Control (Tasks)

Using RBAC (Tasks)

Viewing and Using RBAC Defaults (Tasks)

Viewing and Using RBAC Defaults (Task Map)

How to View All Defined Security Attributes

How to View Your Assigned Rights

How to Assume a Role

How to Change the Security Attributes of a User

How to Use Your Assigned Administrative Rights

Customizing RBAC for Your Site (Tasks)

Initially Configuring RBAC (Task Map)

How to Plan Your RBAC Implementation

How to Create a Role

How to Assign a Role

How to Audit Roles

How to Create a Rights Profile

How to Clone and Modify a System Rights Profile

How to Create an Authorization

How to Add RBAC Properties to Legacy Applications

How to Troubleshoot RBAC and Privilege Assignment

Managing RBAC (Tasks)

Managing RBAC (Task Map)

How to Change the Password of a Role

How to Change the Security Attributes of a Role

How to Reorder Assigned Security Attributes

How to Restrict an Administrator to Explicitly Assigned Rights

How to Enable a User to Use Own Password to Assume a Role

How to Change the root Role Into a User

Using Privileges (Tasks)

How to List the Privileges on the System

How to Determine the Privileges That You Have Been Directly Assigned

How to Determine the Privileged Commands That You Can Run

How to Determine the Privileges on a Process

How to Determine Which Privileges a Program Requires

How to Apply Extended Privilege Policy to a Port

How to Run a Shell Script With Privileged Commands

10.  Security Attributes in Oracle Solaris (Reference)

Part IV Cryptographic Services

11.  Cryptographic Framework (Overview)

12.  Cryptographic Framework (Tasks)

13.  Key Management Framework

Part V Authentication Services and Secure Communication

14.  Using Pluggable Authentication Modules

15.  Using Secure Shell

16.  Secure Shell (Reference)

17.  Using Simple Authentication and Security Layer

18.  Network Services Authentication (Tasks)

Part VI Kerberos Service

19.  Introduction to the Kerberos Service

20.  Planning for the Kerberos Service

21.  Configuring the Kerberos Service (Tasks)

22.  Kerberos Error Messages and Troubleshooting

23.  Administering Kerberos Principals and Policies (Tasks)

24.  Using Kerberos Applications (Tasks)

25.  The Kerberos Service (Reference)

Part VII Auditing in Oracle Solaris

26.  Auditing (Overview)

27.  Planning for Auditing

28.  Managing Auditing (Tasks)

29.  Auditing (Reference)

Glossary

Index

Using RBAC (Tasks)

To use RBAC requires planning, configuring RBAC, and knowing how to assume a role. Once roles become familiar, you might further customize RBAC to handle new operations. The following task map points to these major tasks, including the use of privilege.

Task
Description
For Instructions
Use the default RBAC configuration.
Views and uses RBAC without modifying the initial installation.
Plan, configure, and use RBAC.
Configures RBAC for your site.
Administer RBAC.
Updates your site's RBAC configuration.
Manage and use privileges.
Adds and removes privileges from users, roles, systems, and processes. Uses privileges. Views and debugs use of privilege.