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Articles for the keywords: RBAC
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22 Apr 2013
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'Function Security and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Oracle E-Business Suite' [30625]
New Oracle Whitepaper on the Latest Work in RBAC
The new white paper "Function Security and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Oracle E-Business Suite (Note 1537100.1)" (registration and log-in required) draws some praise from Chris Warticki, who explains that it illustrates two main ways to implement security in Oracle E-Business Suite: traditional Oracle E-Business Suite responsibility-based security (usually referred to as function security) and Role-Based Access Control. According to Sara Woodhull in a separate post, the whitepaper is written for Oracle E-Business Suite system administrators, super-users, and implementers. It applies to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i, 12.0, and 12.1.
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12 Jul 2012
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Delegation of Solaris Zone Administration [26855]
Enabling Management of Distinct Zones by Particular Admins
In Delegation of Solaris Zone Administration, Darren Moffat blogs that, with the Zone Delegation feature built in to Solaris 11, users delegate management of distinct zones. Moffat uses the example of zones named zoneA through zoneF and three admins to each of whom it is necessary to grant a subset of the zone management. One can either add the admin resource to the appropriate zones via zonecfg(1M) or store data directly in the RBAC database, showing all three admins and zones. One can also create an RBAC profile that then assigns the appropriate degree of administrative responsibility to each admin.
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26 Sep 2011
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15 Essential Open Source Tools for Windows Admins [24608]
No Need to Check with Microsoft
Despite what you may have assumed, there is an alternative to Microsoft when it comes to enhancements for Windows, and these enhancements are free and olpen source, so why call Redmond. J. Peter Bruzzese a number of these offerings in his InforWorld article "15 Essential Open Source Tools for Windows Admins." Here's a list:
- Wireshark
- AMANDA
- MailArchiva
- Exchange 2010 RBAC Manager
- Core Configurator 2.0 for Server Core
- AutoSPInstaller for SharePoint 2010
- OCS Inventory
- UltraDefrag
- Nmap for Windows
- Zenmap
- PowerGUI
- Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
- ClamWin Antivirus
- Virtual Router
- VirtualBox
Microsoft also hosts CodePlex, a site for open source projects.
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31 Aug 2011
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Who's Using RBAC These Days? [24490]
100% of Solaris Users
While Oracle's Solaris engineers don't have exact figures on the number of Solaris users also using RBAC, they can be certain of the percentage: 100%. Why? Because from Solaris 10 forward it is impossible to turn RBAC off in the parts of the system that 100% of Solaris users always use. Darren Moffat blogs that the kernel always checks Solaris's fine grained privileges (82 distinct privileges in Solaris 11 Express), even if the process is running "as root".
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18 Jul 2011
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Secure Administration of Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Logical Domains) [24361]
Separation of Function Is Critical in Virtual Environment, Jeff Savit Argues
In his blog post "Secure administration of Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Logical Domains)" Jeff Savit describes how to use RBAC to secure an Oracle VM Server for SPARC system by eliminating use of the root userid and restricting power to specific users and roles when they need them. That step, along with restricting which userids can log into a control domain in the first place, should be considered for any domain environment, he contends.
Other tasks one may wish to consider include using RBAC to control access to guest domains consoles and to enable security auditing, he adds. OVMSS Security, Savit writes, provides the necessary separation of function that is especially critical in a virtual machine environment. He concludes that reference information for the tasks in his blog can be found in Chapter 3 of the Oracle VM Server Administration Guide.
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