Preface

The Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions Configuration and Administration guide provides procedures for enabling and initially configuring the Trusted Extensions feature on the Oracle Solaris operating system (Oracle Solaris OS). This guide also provides procedures for managing users, zones, devices, and hosts on a Trusted Extensions system.

Note - This Oracle Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC and x86 families of processor architectures. The supported systems appear in the Oracle Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:

“x86” refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.
“x64” relates specifically to 64-bit x86 compatible CPUs.
“32-bit x86” points out specific 32-bit information about x86 based systems.

For supported systems, see the Oracle Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists.

Who Should Use This Guide

This guide is for knowledgeable system administrators and security administrators who are configuring and administering Trusted Extensions software. The level of trust that is required by your site security policy, and your level of expertise, determine who can perform the configuration tasks.

Administrators should be familiar with Oracle Solaris administration. In addition, administrators should understand the following:

The security features of Trusted Extensions and your site security policy
Basic concepts and procedures for using a host that is configured with Trusted Extensions, as described in the Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions User Guide
How administrative tasks are divided among roles at your site

Trusted Extensions and the Oracle Solaris operating system

Trusted Extensions runs on top of the Oracle Solaris OS. Because Trusted Extensions software can modify the Oracle Solaris OS, Trusted Extensions can require specific settings for Oracle Solaris installation options. Part I of this guide describes how to prepare the Oracle Solaris OS for Trusted Extensions, how to enable Trusted Extensions, and how to initially configure the software. Part II of this guide describes how to administer the uniquely Trusted Extensions features of the system.

How the Trusted Extensions Guides Are Organized

The following table lists the topics that are covered in the Trusted Extensions guides and the audience for each guide.

Title of Guide	Topics	Audience
Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions User Guide	Describes the basic features of Trusted Extensions. This guide contains a glossary.	End users, administrators, developers
Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions Configuration and Administration	Part I describes how to prepare for, enable, and initially configure Trusted Extensions. Part II describes how to administer a Trusted Extensions system. This guide contains a glossary.	Administrators, developers
Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions Developer’s Guide	Describes how to develop applications with Trusted Extensions.	Developers, administrators
Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions Label Administration	Provides information about how to specify label components in the label encodings file.	Administrators
Compartmented Mode Workstation Labeling: Encodings Format	Describes the syntax used in the label encodings file. The syntax enforces the various rules for well-formed labels for a system.	Administrators

Related System Administration Guides

The following guides contain information that is useful when you prepare for and run Trusted Extensions software.

Book Title	Topics
Solaris Installation Guides	Guidance on installing the Oracle Solaris OS
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration	User accounts and groups, shutting down and booting a system, and managing services
System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration	Terminals and modems, system resources, system processes, and troubleshooting Oracle Solaris software problems
System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems	Removable media, disks and devices, file systems, and backing up and restoring data
System Administration Guide: IP Services	TCP/IP network administration, IPv4 and IPv6 address administration, DHCP, IPsec, IKE, IP filter, Mobile IP, and IPQoS
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)	DNS, NIS, and LDAP naming and directory services, including transitioning from NIS to LDAP
System Administration Guide: Network Interfaces and Network Virtualization	Networking stack, NIC driver property configuration, NWAM configuration, manual network interface configuration, administration of VLANs and link aggregations, IP network multipathing (IPMP), WiFi wireless networking configuration, virtual NICs (VNICs), and network resource management
System Administration Guide: Network Services	Web cache servers, time-related services, network file systems (NFS and autofs), mail, SLP, and PPP
System Administration Guide: Printing	Printing topics and tasks, using services, tools, protocols, and technologies to set up and administer printing services and printers
System Administration Guide: Security Services	Auditing, device management, file security, BART, Kerberos services, PAM, Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework, Key Management Framework, privileges, RBAC, SASL, and Solaris Secure Shell
System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris 10 Containers, and Resource Management	Resource management features, which enable you to control how applications use available system resources; Oracle Solaris Zones software partitioning technology, which virtualizes operating system services to create an isolated environment for running applications; and Oracle Solaris 10 Containers, which host Oracle Solaris 10 environments running on the Oracle Solaris 11 Express kernel
Oracle Solaris SMB and Windows Interoperability Administration Guide	Oracle Solaris SMB service, which enables you to configure an Oracle Solaris system to make SMB shares available to SMB clients; Oracle Solaris SMB client, which enables you to access SMB shares; and native identity mapping service, which enables you to map user and group identities between Oracle Solaris systems and Windows systems
Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide	ZFS storage pool and file system creation and management, snapshots, clones, backups, using access control lists (ACLs) to protect ZFS files, using ZFS on an Oracle Solaris system with zones installed, emulated volumes, and troubleshooting and data recovery

Related References

Your site security policy document – Describes the security policy and security procedures at your site

The administrator guide for your currently installed operating system – Describes how to back up system files

Related Third-Party Web Site References

Third-party URLs are referenced in this document and provide additional, related information.

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Documentation, Support, and Training

See the following web sites for additional resources:

Documentation
Support
Training – Click the Sun Quick Links pull-down menu.

Oracle Software Resources

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Discuss technical problems and solutions on the Discussion Forums.
Get hands-on step-by-step tutorials with Oracle By Example.
Download Sample Code.

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
`aabbcc123`	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is `rm` `filename`.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for shells that are included in the Oracle Solaris OS. Note that the default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Oracle Solaris release.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell	`$`
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell for superuser	`#`
C shell	`machine_name%`
C shell for superuser	`machine_name#`

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