Trusted Solaris 8 HW 7/03 Transition Guide

Installation and Configuration

Trusted Solaris 8 installation and configuration requires more disk and swap space than the Trusted Solaris 7 release required. Files to create local administrative roles are no longer provided on the installation CD-ROM. The root role creates the initial roles, then assigns the roles to the initial users.

Installation Differences

Installation on most hardware is identical to Solaris 8 installation. The Trusted Solaris 8 environment supports the name services that are fully supported in the Solaris 8 and Solaris Management Console 2.0 releases. The following lists the exceptions:


Note –

To distribute a site label encodings file during Trusted Solaris 8 network installation requires a customized JumpStart installation that calls a site-created script to install the file at admin_high.


Configuration Differences

The Trusted Solaris 8 release introduces significant configuration differences from earlier releases. Of particular interest are Security Policy, Labels, Roles, Auditing, Devices and Trusted Networking.