Before You Read This Book

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

• Understand how to administer the Solaris or compatible operating environment, the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) window system, Solaris Management Console (SMC), and the NIS+ (or 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 guides

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

• 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 the following methods:

• Training

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

• Documentation

  The Trusted Solaris guides are available in the following formats:

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

  • On the AnswerBook CD shipped with the product

    AnswerBooks are document collections you can install on your local computer or on a document server and view onscreen. AnswerBooks for the Trusted Solaris operating environment, for the bundled CDE window system, and for the Solaris operating environment are on the Trusted Solaris AnswerBook CD.