Operating Environment Features

The Trusted Solaris environment is based on the Solaris operating environment, and provides enhanced security while maintaining the following Solaris operating environment features:

• ANSI C language specification.

• Application Programming Interface (API).

• SPARC^TM Architecture Manual Version 8 application binary interfaces (ABIs), and System V Release 4 ABI.

• Executable file formats:

  • a.out.

  • Executable and linking format (ELF).

  • Interpreted files.

• Device programming interfaces:

  • Device Driver Interface (DDI).

  • Device Kernel Interface (DKI).

• File systems and file system objects.

• User and system administration commands.

• Common Desktop Environment (CDE) specification.

• The Trusted Solaris X window system is based on and generally compatible with the X11R5-based window system in the Solaris operating environment.

• Motif and OpenLook Interface Toolkit (OLIT).

• Level 1, 2, and 3 internationalization.

• Solaris pluggable authentication module (PAM) functionality.

  Note that the password generation algorithm can be replaced by installing a new shared object called /usr/lib/security/pam_rw.so which implements the replacement function. The file must be at ADMIN_LOW, with the permissions rwxr-xr-x root sys. The function must conform to the syntax and symantics described in the randomword(3TSOL) man page.