Protecting Local Peripheral Devices against Unauthorized Users

In the Trusted Solaris environment, administrators can assign access to local peripheral devices such as tape drives, floppies, printers, and microphones on a user-by-user basis. The Trusted Solaris 8 environment restricts access to peripheral devices as follows:

• Remote users cannot tap into local devices such as microphones or tape drives; users must be logged in locally to use a special device allocation tool.

• Only users with special authorization can access devices with removable media.