Before You Read This Book

Understand Solaris 8 administration, CDE, Solaris Management Console^TM, and NIS+.

The procedures in this guide are unique to Trusted Solaris administration, and often add to Solaris procedures. An administrator should already understand how to administer the Solaris operating environment, how to use and administer the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) window system, how to use Solaris Management Console administration tools, and administer a name service.

AnswerBooks for the above-mentioned products that are bundled into Trusted Solaris are available on the Trusted Solaris 8 4/01 AnswerBook CD, which is shipped with the Trusted Solaris 8 4/01 product CD.

Read and understand the basic concepts and procedures for using the system, as described in the Trusted Solaris User's Guide.

Administrators should know how to work in the Trusted Solaris environment as a normal user.

Read and understand the administrative concepts described in the Trusted Solaris Administration Overview.

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

Each procedure identifies which role is assigned to the task in the default configuration. The Security Administrator role is responsible for informing administrators if the default administrative roles have been reconfigured.