Assigning the SMC to Normal User Accounts

The Basic Solaris User profile provides the authorizations to view most information in the Solaris Management Console (SMC) tools. The default /etc/security/policy.conf file ships with an entry that assigns the Basic Solaris User profile to all users.

If the administrator has removed the Basic Solaris User rights profile from the policy.conf(4) file or assigns this rights profile only to selected users, most users will not be able to view the SMC information.

By default, only administrative roles have the required authorizations in their rights profiles to modify information in the SMC. While a Security Administrator can assign one or more of the required authorizations to a user account, such assignment bypasses the trusted path.