Solaris™ 8 System Administrator Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams CX-310-011 and CX-310-012)

Chapter 5. System Security and File Permissions

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Superuser account

• User and group accounts

• /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group file formats

• Absolute and symbolic access modes

• Access Control List (ACL)

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Restricting and monitoring the superuser account

• Changing default and existing file permissions

• Setting and displaying Access Control Lists

• Changing file ownership

This chapter covers system security and file permissions. In particular, system security involves controlling access to the system by use of passwords and restricting/monitoring the use of administrative user accounts. The file permissions portion of the chapter addresses controlling access to the data in files by using ...