On 03/04/09 05:02, Peter Memishian wrote: > > In the case of dladm (and in the "persistence" model offered by > > /etc/hostname.intf) and flowadm, root privilege is required to > > first set the property and to then subsequently update the > > datastore. > > Why is root access required for dladm? >
It's not required. Any user with a 'right profile' in which '/sbin/dladm' has 'sys_dl_config' privilege can do 'dladm' operations. And 'root' happens to be that user. ~Girish
