No root for you
I was on site at a POC for our Identity Management suite recently and was in the uncomfortable position of not being given root access on an AIX server which was setup for us to use, nor anyone who had root access to work with to perform several installs (Identity Manager, Access Manager, Access Manager agents, Directory Server, etc.).
Now installs is one thing, and we got over that (eventually). But for performing provisioning operations, I definetly appreciate the features in Solaris RBAC and Profiles. This is a much cleaner approach to using other alternatives (sudo). There was a great article written by a Sun collegue posted to BigAdmin a while back, but when forced to use another OS, one really starts missing what we take for granted in Solaris. Using Sun Java System Identity Manager With RBAC Profiles in the Solaris OS
Now installs is one thing, and we got over that (eventually). But for performing provisioning operations, I definetly appreciate the features in Solaris RBAC and Profiles. This is a much cleaner approach to using other alternatives (sudo). There was a great article written by a Sun collegue posted to BigAdmin a while back, but when forced to use another OS, one really starts missing what we take for granted in Solaris. Using Sun Java System Identity Manager With RBAC Profiles in the Solaris OS