pfexec, pfbash, pfcsh, pfksh, pfsh, pftcsh, pfzsh, pfksh93 - execute a command in a profile
/usr/bin/pfexec command
/usr/bin/pfbash [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/bin/pfcsh [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/bin/pfksh [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/bin/pfsh [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/bin/pftcsh [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/bin/pfzsh [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/bin/pfksh93 [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/bin/pfrksh93 [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/bin/pfrksh [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/sunos/bin/pfksh [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/xpg4/bin/pfsh [ options ] [ argument ]...
/usr/bin/pfexec -P privspec command [ arg ]...
The pfexec program sets the PRIV_PFEXEC process flag and marks the current process as a profile shell. It then executes the specified command. The kernel queries the exec_attr(5) database and executes with the appropriate attributes.
Profiles are searched in the order specified in the user's entries in the user_attr(5) database and policy.conf(5). For each user, there are two sets of profiles, an authenticated set, and an unauthenticated set. The user is required to reauthenticate prior to executing commands which match an entry in the exec_attr(5) database corresponding to the authenticated profiles set. If the command is executed from a terminal, the authentication state is cached for the current user and tty, subject to the timeout option set for pam_tty_tickets(7) in the PAM stack /etc/pam.d/pfexec. If there is no current tty, but there is an active X11 session, the user is prompted to authenticate through a zenity(1) dialog. This authentication state is cached for the current user and DISPLAY environment setting.
Processes that have been successfully reauthenticated, including those that were implicitly authenticated within the timeout value of the cache, are marked with an additional process flag, PRIV_PFEXEC_AUTH, which exempts child processes from subsequent reauthentication. Both the PRIV_PFEXEC and PRIV_PFEXEC_AUTH flags are inherited by child processes unless the real uid is changed.
Commands that match the set of unauthenticated profiles do not require reauthentication, but have lower precedence than commands in the set of authenticated profiles. If the same command appears in more than one profile, the profile shell uses the first matching entry.
The second form, pfexec –P privspec, allows a user to obtain the additional privileges awarded to the user's profiles in prof_attr(5). The privileges specification on the command line is parsed using priv_str_to_set(3C). The resulting privileges are intersected with the union of the privileges specified using the privs keyword in prof_attr(5) for all the user's profiles and added to the inheritable set before executing the command. Privileges from authenticated rights profiles can be obtained only when the user has already reauthenticated successfully.
pfexec is used to execute commands with predefined process attributes, such as specific user or group IDs.
Refer to the man pages for each shell for complete usage descriptions of the profile shells.
example% pfexec -P all chown user file
This command runs chown user file with all privileges assigned to the current user, not necessarily all privileges.
The following exit values are returned:
Successful completion.
An error occurred.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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bash(1), csh(1), ksh(1), ksh88(1), profiles(1), sh(1), tcsh(1), zsh(1), exec_attr(5), prof_attr(5), user_attr(5), attributes(7)
Support for authenticated profiles was added in Oracle Solaris 11.2.0.
The pfexec command was added in Solaris 8.