Re: root group in solaris

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, dubaisans dubai wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to give root user privileges to a set of OS
> administrators. Everyone has individual user-ids on the system.
> Currently they login with their personal ID and then SU to root. I
> donot want to share root password with these many people.
>
> I am thinking of adding all these users to the "root" group[GID 0].
> Will it provide root-equivalent UID O access to these users. If not
> why ? Does the "root" group not have root user-id equivalent
> privileges?
>
> Is it possible manually to make the GID 0 privileges equivalant of UID O?
>
> How else can I give these individual users root privileges - make all
> of them UID 0 or something.? Is that a smart idea?
>
> I am looking at something simpler than SUDO or RBAC

Hi there -

What is the issue you are having with RBAC? It is included
by default in Solaris, many things like SSH are RBAC aware,
it is logged & audited.

If you're running solaris 10 or newer, you can also use
least priveleges to limit what each operator can do.

Valerie
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