Re: How do I do this?

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: 19 Apr 2004 14:48:03 GMT

Voyager <voyager@hackfaq.org> writes:

>On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:19:36 +0000, Casper H. S. *** wrote:

>Would this be correct?

Yes, if a bit concise...

>Roles
>~~~~~

>Roles are special system accounts. Roles are similar to regular system
>users, however roles may not log into the system. The preferred method of
>assuming a role is to use the `su` command.

One important aspect of roles is that only users who have been assigned
a particular role can "su" to that role.

So that is what you'd use on Solaris to limit, say, the
"db2/informix/oracle/sybase[1]" user, to the database administrators. You
can't login directly to as the database user and only the database
administrators can "su" to that user.

Casper

[1] Alphabetical order. 

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