Authorization Naming Convention

An authorization has a name that is used internally and in files (for example, solaris.admin.usermgr.pswd), and a short description, which appears in the graphical user interfaces (for example, Change Passwords).

By convention, authorization names consist of the reverse order of the Internet name of the supplier, the subject area, any subareas, and the function, which are all separated by dots. An example would be com.xyzcorp.device.access. Exceptions to this convention are the authorizations from Sun Microsystems, Inc., which use the prefix solaris instead of an Internet name. Sun's convention enables administrators to apply authorizations in a hierarchical fashion by using a wildcard (*) to represent any strings to the right of a dot.