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Administering privilege

The traditional privilege model

The current privilege model
    Why have fixed privileges?
    The need for an all-Privileged user
    A file-Based privilege mechanism

File and process privileges
    Privileges associated with a file
    Privileges associated with a process

The privilege policy
    Recalculating process privileges

Privilege initialization at system startup

Privileges and the filepriv command
    Displaying privilege information
    Installing a new program requiring privileges
    Changing privileges on an existing file
    Removing privileges from existing files

Updating the file privilege database