Stephanie Brucker wrote:
> Hi Folks -
>
> In our new system administrators guide for the Indiana 08/05, our
> instructions tell the reader to log in using pfexec (rather than su to
> root). Will the dladm commands that require root privileges work when
> you log in with pfexec? Are there limitations? I've never used pfexec
> but certainly will begin to do that, if this is the login of choice
> going forward with Indiana.
>
You don't "login with pfexec", but rather you use pfexec to acquire
additional privileges for the supplied command -- much like sudo operates.
Whether pfexec grants you those privileges or not depends on what
privileges you have been given in the authorizations database.
On my home system, the command 'usermod -P "Primary Administrator"
gdamore' is used to ensure that I can use pfexec to acquire master
privileges (root, whatever else might be required) any time I issue pfexec.
-- Garrett
> - Steff
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