Hi Michelle,
I just downloaded the document and overall I am very impressed. I had a
few suggestions that I wanted to pass along. Also, I was wondering if it would
be worth creating a download of files that could be used for the lab exercises,
such as sample configuration files to give users the option of looking at
pre-canned information in case they run into typo based errors when they are
trying a lab.
* In the 'To Create, Install, and Boot a Zone' lab on page 31, the sysid
configuration step isn't shown
(which would be in step 5). This could also be covered by having the user
create a sysidcfg file which would skip the interactive questions.
* In the 'Web Server Virtualization With Zones' lab on page 34, the title says
'Creating Two Local Zones' but the commands are actually showing the
configuration of (apparently) previously existing zones. I think it would be
helpful to change the commands to show creating the two zones that will be
used or to mention that the lab assumes that the zones have been previously
created.
* It would be nice to add a lab exercise for least privileges, such as showing
+ how to use the ppriv command to list privileges
+ have a user try to do something that requires a privilege and fails (such as
starting a program listening on a low port like a web server on port 80)
+ modify the account with usermod -K defaultpriv=basic,net_privaddr $user
+ have the user re-login, verify the new privilege
+ relaunch the program that listens on a low port and verify it works
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