Nergal Dimitri wrote:
If I have some special device like a signaling card, can this card be used from a zone without any restrictions? And if there are restrictions, can the global administrator change these restrictions to allow the use of it, even if it breaks the zones security rules?
That depends on what the software wants to do to that device, and when you want to implement it, as follows.
You can assign the device into the zone. At that point software which does not need root privileges can do the "normal" things a non-root process can do, e.g. open it, read from it, write to it, close it, etc.
If the software does things which normally require root privileges, you may need to wait until Solaris 10 delivers the ability to give special privileges to zones. I believe that this ability will begin to arrive in Solaris 10 later this year.
Perhaps someone else on this list can be more specific about the last paragraph. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystems jeff.victor @ sun.com OS Ambassador Sr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
