Trusted Solaris Administrator's Procedures

Accessing Administration Tools

The following table lists the Trusted Solaris administrative tools and where their use is described.

Solaris Management Console tool or equivalent commands, such as smuser(1M) and smrole(1M).

Used for most configuration of user accounts, hosts, and networks. Can update local files or name service databases. Can also launch legacy applications: dtterm(1) and dtappsession(1).

Note: Authorizations are used to control which tools or fields can be accessed by each role in the Solaris Management Console and which options can be used in the equivalent commands.

See "To Launch the Solaris Management Console".

Trusted Solaris administrative actions in the System_Admin Folder in the Application Management folder 

Used to edit local files that the Solaris Management Console does not manage, such as /etc/system.

See "To Launch Local Administrative Actions".

Administrative commands and actions. 

Used to perform tasks not covered by the Solaris Management Console or System_Admin programs. 

See man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands.