Before You Read This Book

The person who works in the security administrator role to configure labels should:

• Understand how to administer the Solaris or compatible operating environment, the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) window system, Solstice AdminSuite system administration tools, and the NIS+ system for central administration of configuration files

• Know how to work in the Trusted Solaris environment as a normal (non-administrative) user (as described in the Trusted Solaris User's Guide)

• Understand the administrative concepts and know how to use the administrator's tools described in the Trusted Solaris Administration Overview and Trusted Solaris Administrator's Procedures manuals

  Administrative tasks are divided among several administrative roles. The administrator's procedures manual describes how a user assumes the secadmin role and uses administrative actions to perform the work described in this manual.

• Understand how administrative tasks are divided among roles at your site

  Some sites may assign the label encodings tasks to a locally-created administrative role.

• Understand the security requirements of your agency or organization.

The necessary level of knowledge may be acquired through:

• Training

  For information about the Trusted Solaris training class, see the course description from the Sun Education catalog.

• Documentation

  The Trusted Solaris manuals are available in the following formats:

  • At Sun's documentation website at http://docs.sun.com

  • On the AnswerBook CD shipped with the product

    AnswerBooks are document collections viewable onscreen. AnswerBooks for the Trusted Solaris operating environment; for the bundled products, CDE and Solstice AdminSuite; and for the base Solaris operating environment are on the Trusted Solaris AnswerBook CD.

  • Printed versions

    If not obtained when the product was purchased, the documentation set can be ordered through SunStore.