A rights profile is a collection of rights that can be assigned to a role or user to perform tasks that require administrative rights. A rights profile can include authorizations, privileges, commands with assigned security attributes, and other rights profiles. Rights profiles can also contain entries to reduce or extend the initial inheritable set of privileges and to reduce the limit set.
An authenticated rights profile is a rights profiles that requires the user to supply a password, or to reauthenticate. The administrator decides which profiles can be used without reauthentication. A good example of a profile that would not require reauthentication is the Basic Solaris User rights profile. Depending on site security requirements, rights profiles for security-sensitive tasks might require reauthentication.
For reference information about rights profiles, see the following sections: