How to Forcibly Deallocate a Device

Devices that a user has allocated are not automatically deallocated when the process terminates or when the user logs out. Forcible deallocation is used when a user has forgotten to deallocate a device.

Before You Begin

You must become an administrator who is assigned the solaris.device.revoke authorization. For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

1. Determine whether you have the appropriate authorizations in your role.

   $ auths
   solaris.device.allocate solaris.device.revoke

2. Forcibly deallocate the device.

   In this example, a printer is forcibly deallocated so it is available for allocation by another user.

   $ deallocate -f /dev/lp/printer-1