Configurable Oracle Solaris Security Features

Trusted Extensions uses the same security features that the Oracle Solaris OS provides, and adds some features. For example, the Oracle Solaris OS provides eeprom protection, password requirements and strong password algorithms, system protection by locking out a user, and protection from keyboard shutdown.

Trusted Extensions differs from the Oracle Solaris OS in the actual procedures that are used to modify these security defaults. In Trusted Extensions, you typically administer systems by assuming a role. Settings are modified by editing local files.

Trusted Extensions Interfaces for Configuring Security Features

Procedures are provided in this book where Trusted Extensions requires a particular interface to modify security settings, and that interface is optional in the Oracle Solaris OS.

Extension of Oracle Solaris Security Mechanisms by Trusted Extensions

The following Oracle Solaris security mechanisms are extensible in Trusted Extensions as they are in the Oracle Solaris OS:

• Audit events and classes – Adding audit events and audit classes is described in Chapter 30, Managing Oracle Solaris Auditing (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

• Rights profiles – Adding rights profiles is described in Part III, Roles, Rights Profiles, and Privileges, in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

• Roles – Adding roles is described in Part III, Roles, Rights Profiles, and Privileges, in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

• Authorizations – For an example of adding a new authorization, see Customizing Device Authorizations in Trusted Extensions (Task Map).

As in the Oracle Solaris OS, privileges cannot be extended.

Trusted Extensions Security Features

Trusted Extensions provides the following unique security features:

• Labels – Subjects and objects are labeled. Processes are labeled. Zones and the network are labeled.

• Device Manager – By default, devices are protected by allocation requirements. The Device Manager GUI is the interface for administrators and for regular users.

• Change Password menu item – The Trusted Path menu enables you to change your user password, and the password of the role that you have assumed.

• Change Workspace Label menu item – Workspaces are labeled,and users in multilevel sessions can change the workspace label. By default, users must provide a password when entering a workspace of a different label.