Securing Users and Processes in Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

Rights Databases

    The following databases store the data for rights in Oracle Solaris:

  • Extended user attributes database (user_attr) Associates users and roles with authorizations, privileges, and rights profiles, among other keywords.

  • Rights profile attributes database (prof_attr) Defines rights profiles, lists the profiles' assigned authorizations, privileges, and keywords, and identifies the associated help file

  • Authorization attributes database (auth_attr) Defines authorizations and their attributes, and identifies the associated help file

  • Execution attributes database (exec_attr) Identifies the commands with security attributes that are assigned to specific rights profiles

The policy.conf database contains authorizations, privileges, and rights profiles that are applied to all users. For more information, see policy.conf File.