On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 14:55 -0500, Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote: > On (03/02/09 14:48), Sebastien Roy wrote: > > > We are considering using a model similar to that used for dladm/flowadm: > > > have an ipadm RBAC role with auths similar to those for dladm: > > > i.e., auths=solaris.smf.manage.wpa,solaris.smf.modify. > > > > The libdladm model requires that writing to the database be done by > > dlmgmtd which is run as the dladm user (the datalink.conf file is only > > writable by the dladm user). Permissions to write to the file are not > > related to any authorizations AFAIK. How will this work for libipadm? > > How does this work for flowadm, which afaict writes to flowadm.conf > without dlmgmtd being the intermediary?
I don't know, I'm not that familiar with the design/implementation of flowadm. Does it require being run as root to create a flow? If so, then I'm not quite sure why flowadm.conf is owned by the dladm user. -Seb
