Solaris Security

An Overview of Solaris 10 Operating System Security Controls

Glenn Brunette Distinguished Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/gbrunett/

September 25, 2007

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Introduction................................................................................................................. ...............4 . Acknowledgements....................................................................................................................4 Installation Considerations........................................................................................................5

Disk Partitioning.............................................................................................................................................. .....5 Software Installation Clusters......................................................................................................... .....................6 Minimization...................................................................................................................................................... ...6

Configuration Considerations...................................................................................................9

Non-Executable Stacks............................................................................................................... ........................9 File System Security................................................................................................................................ ............9 Unix Permissions................................................................................................................................... .........9 Access Control Lists (UFS and ZFS)................................................................................................. ...........10 Mount...