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Administering privilege

Updating the file privilege database

If critical system commands such as tfadmin(1M) or scoadmin(1M) fail consistently, it is possible that file privileges have been modified the changes are not reflected in the file privilege database (/etc/security/tcb/privs).

This can be caused by:

To determine if the file privilege database is out of sync:

  1. Log in as root on the system console or open a terminal window and use su(1M) to switch to the root login ID.

  2. Enter:

    initprivs

    at the root login prompt.

If initprivs completes successfully, no output is printed and the root login prompt is displayed again. If privileges cannot be re-applied to one or more files, initprivs issues a warning for each one.

To synchronize the file privilege database with the filesystem, run the command:

/etc/security/tools/setpriv -x

This should solve the problem.


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