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sam -r in SUN and LINUX

Mark Treen_1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:23:30 GMT

Hi All

I want to say before anything sorry to those who feel this thread shouldnt be here. I guess I am one of those sorts of people who doesnt mind asking at least once!!

Anyway, I was wondering if there was anybody out there who knew of a similar system to SAM and SAM restricted in the LINUX (RH) and SUN OS's

A thousand thanks as always

Mark

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

Sivakumar TS — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:34:16 GMT

Dear Mark,

I dont remember some thing exactly similar to sam -r, but you can configure RBAC - Rola Based Access COntrol , in solaris.
This allows you to create profiles and assign users to the profiles. Each profile can be capable of executing the DEFINED set of commands.

Please check this link,

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/custom_roles_rbac.html

Hope this helps.

Siva.

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

Luk Vandenbussche — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:34:17 GMT

Hi Mark,

The administrator tool for Solaris is 'admintool', the runs only in X emulation not in character mode

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

Peter Godron — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:39:31 GMT

Mark,
Linux, to my knowledge, does not supply a sam equivalent.
The closest is probably something like linuxconf, which is a third party product.

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

Vipulinux — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:02:58 GMT

Hi
In Solaris we have: smc
In Linux: there are seperate utilities for diff things e.g.
for NIC config you have redhat-config-network (system-config-network)
for DNS (redhat-config-bind)
etc etc

Hope this helps

Cheers

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

George Liu_4 — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:18:10 GMT

There is no exact equivelent tool for SAM in the other flavors of ?nix.

Sun:
Use Solaris Management Console (smc) to perform similar tasks.
admintool is obsolete in newer Solaris and is discouraged to use.

RedHat:
Use sudoer to set up the individual Privilege
for specific tasks first, and then run system-config-* or redhat-config-* on different versions of RHEL

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

Huc_1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:51:37 GMT

I find the following to be a helpfull reminder when I have to work with an other flavour of Unix

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html#files

Not exactly your question but usefull never the less... I hope.

Jean-Pierre Huc.

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:20:45 GMT

sam has not been ported to Linux.

sudo is available for hpux and does not really do what sam can do. Its great at what it does but is only a poor substitute for sam.

Long run, Linux is going to have to add such a tool.

SEP

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

dirk dierickx — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:23:45 GMT

on linux:
check the redhat-config-* files, but they don't cover everything ofcourse.

my advise to people is to install webmin, it's great, administration through the web, you can have users with different rights to certain servers or aspects of administration.

take a look at it, highly recommended (and a whole load better then #@$# hp's sam)

http://www.webmin.com/

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

Huc_1 — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:01:14 GMT

please discard my previous answer, had a few question open and post this answer to the wrong one ...

The tool/link is still a good one to have

I would also recommand webmin nice and works in most environment.

Jean-Pierre Huc

P.S. 0 points please to reward my previous answer.

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

Indrajit_1 — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:33:04 GMT

Hi;

In linux in command prompt, u can try the following command.

#setup
#userconf (configure user account)
#linuxconf ('')

In solaris.
#admintool

Cheers
Indrajit

Re: sam -r in SUN and LINUX

Paul Cross_1 — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:40:45 GMT

Quick reply to mention that admintool is garbage. It is very feature-poor and has not been updated in as long as I can remember.

Also, GUI/console admin aids are no match for the power of command-line administration, but I'm sure you know that :)

As an aside, you could look at webmin, but it is an add-on.

-P