Components of Device Allocation

The components of the device allocation mechanism are as follows:

  • The svc:/system/device/allocate service. For more information, see the smf(7) man page and the man pages for the device allocation commands.

  • The allocate, deallocate, dminfo, and list_devices commands. For more information, see Device Allocation Commands.

  • The Device Management and Device Security rights profiles. For more information, see Device Allocation Rights Profiles.

  • Device-clean scripts for each allocatable device.

These commands and scripts use the following local files to implement device allocation:

  • The /etc/security/device_allocate file. For more information, see the device_allocate(5) man page.

  • The /etc/security/device_maps file. For more information, see the device_maps(5) man page.

  • A lock file, in the /etc/security/dev directory, for each allocatable device.

  • The changed attributes of the lock files that are associated with each allocatable device.