I 've deployed PowerBroker at several customers site. It was always
successfull because of the central policy, the HA capability, a good
support and the flexibility of the policy language.
In addition to the advantage already found against sudo I would add:
- OOTB encryption for request/answer/log/keystrokelog
- LDAP integration that allow users definition and autorization
saved in directory
- hardened shells and utilities (sh,ksh,vi,less)
- integrated logs parser
- checksum verificationof program to be executed
- tiered policy
bbr
What is the suggestion on using a tool like Powerbroker from Symark.
The tool claims to centralise the "sudo" function and also provide
logging? Does anyone have feedback on this tool or any other third
party tool in the same space?
On 9/19/06, Suzanne Widup <Suzanne.Widup@safeway.com> wrote:
Have you looked at implementing sudo? It's a root delegation tool and
would give you some better accountability as to what people are doing.
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On Behalf Of dubaisans dubai
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 5:50 AM
To: focus-sun@securityfocus.com
Subject: root group in solaris
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
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