Working With Policy Locks

To Leave an Administration Session

Logging in as a user with an access level of ALL or WRITE puts you into a session. If you make changes to a policy, you cannot log out of the session until you either save or cancel those changes.

To Unlock a Policy

A lock is automatically acquired and held by the first person to change a policy. The lock is held on a per system basis; if someone acquires the lock, you cannot make changes to a policy.

The lock does not affect the buttons in the SunScreen banner. Anyone can request a search at any time and view the Documentation and Information pages.

If the Could not acquire the lock message appears (to indicate that someone has made changes to the policy):

• On the command line, type:

  edit> QUIT

  Or

• In the administration GUI:

1. Click the Cancel Changes button.

2. Click the Policies button in the SunScreen banner.

   You can try to edit the policy later.

When you click the Save Changes button or log out, you give up the lock and others can work on the Screen.

To Forcibly Clear the Lock

To clear the lock forcibly, type the following at the command line:

# ssadm lock -c policy_name