Chapter 11. Controlling Access and Configuring System Messaging

Objectives

The following test objectives for Exam CX-310-202 are covered in this chapter:

Configure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), including assigning rights, profiles, roles, and authorizations to users.

• This chapter describes Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and identifies the four main databases involved with RBAC. The system administrator needs to understand the function and structure of each of these databases and how to apply the RBAC functionality in real-world situations.

Analyze RBAC configuration file summaries and manage RBAC using the command line.

• You will see how to assign a role to a user and use rights profiles by using commands that are described in this chapter. These can greatly assist the system administrator when managing a large number of rights that are to be assigned to a number of users.

Explain syslog() function fundamentals, and configure and manage the /etc/syslog.conf file and syslog messaging.

• This chapter describes the basics of system messaging in the Solaris operating environment, introduces the daemon responsible for managing the messaging, and describes the configuration file that determines what information is logged and where it is stored. It also describes the new method of restarting/refreshing the syslog process when changes are made to its configuration file.