Trusted Solaris Label Administration

Planning the Colors in the COLOR NAMES Worksheet

The color assigned to a label displays in the background whenever the name of the label appears at the top of a window. The lettering is displayed in a color that complements the background. (The complementary color is computed by the window system.) In our example, the Security Administrator chooses to keep the colors already assigned to the administrative labels in the default label_encodings(4) file and assigns green to PUBLIC, yellow to INTERNAL_USE_ONLY, blue to labels that contain NEED_TO_KNOW (with different shades of blue assigned to each compartment), and red to REGISTERED, as shown in the following table.

Table 5-9 Color Names Planner

Label or Name (label= or name=) 

Color 

ADMIN_LOW 

#bdbdbd 

PUBLIC 

green 

INTERNAL_USE_ONLY 

yellow 

NEED_TO_KNOW 

blue 

NEED_TO_KNOW EMG 

#7FA9EB 

NEED_TO_KNOW SALES 

#87CEFF 

NEED_TO_KNOW FINANCE 

#00BFFF 

NEED_TO_KNOW LEGAL 

#7885D0 

NEED_TO_KNOW MRKTG 

#7A67CD 

NEED_TO_KNOW HR 

#7F7FFF 

NEED_TO_KNOW ENG 

#007FFF 

NEED_TO_KNOW MANU 

#0000BF 

NEED_TO_KNOW PROJECT_TEAM 

#9E7FFF 

NEED_TO_KNOW SYSADM 

#5B85D0 

NEED_TO_KNOW ALL 

#4D658D 

NEED_TO_KNOW SYSADM 

#5B85D0 

REGISTERED 

red 

ADMIN_HIGH 

#636363