Security Administrator Role`s Responsibilities

The Security Administrator role must ensure that a program that uses Trusted Solaris system calls and routines not compromise the security of the Trusted Solaris environment in any way.

1. Make sure the programmer and the program distribution process is trusted.

2. From one of these sources, find out which privileges are required by the program:

   1. Ask the programmer.

   2. Search the source code for any privileges that the program expects to use.

   3. Use the runpd command as described in "To Find Out Which Privileges a Program Needs".

3. Scrutinize the source code to make sure it behaves in a trustworthy manner when using the privileges it needs to operate.