Amendments to PSARC/2008/606 pconsole - parallel console Amendment 1: The pconsole-bin binary requires elevated privilege to be useful. We request to move the binary from the originally stated /usr/bin to /usr/sbin, in line with where other binaries requiring privilege usually exist. Amendment 2: A new execution profile and attribute will be defined. This profile will *NOT* be assigned to anyone by default. The pconsole manual page will be modified to say: - NOTE: - This program must be run as root. To allow non-root - users to use this program, the system administrator - must make the pconsole-bin binary setuid root by issu- - ing the following command: - - # chmod 4555 /usr/bin/pconsole-bin - - This is NOT recommended however, as it could result in - making the system less secure. - + NOTE: + This program must be either run as root or by a user granted + the "Parallel Console Access" rights profile: + + # usermod -P "Parallel Console Access" login-name + RBAC changes: /etc/security/prof_attr: Parallel Console Access:::Connect to remote consoles with pconsole:help=pconsole.html /etc/security/exec_attr: Parallel Console Access:solaris:cmd:::/usr/sbin/pconsole-bin:privs=all