Trusted Solaris Administrator's Procedures

To Enable a User to Track Others' Jobs on a System

A Security Administrator might want to set up a server, such as an audit administration server, so that the main user of the server can monitor all at jobs and cron jobs running on the system.

  1. Assume the Security Administrator role and go to an ADMIN_LOW workspace.

  2. Open the Admin Editor from the System_Admin folder and type in the filename /etc/cron.d/cron.admin.

  3. Add the user's username to the list.

    The user is now enabled to track others' cron jobs on this system.

  4. Repeat for the file /etc/cron.d/at.admin, if the user is permitted to track other users' at jobs on this system.

  5. Check that the user has the Basic Solaris User profile.

    The Basic Solaris User profile includes the Edit Owned Jobs authorization.