sam -r in SUN and LINUX

[Mark Treen_1]

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

[Sivakumar TS]

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.

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi Mark,

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

[Peter Godron]

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

[Vipulinux]

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

[George Liu_4]

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admintool is obsolete in newer Solaris and is discouraged to use.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

[Huc_1]

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.

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[dirk dierickx]

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/

[Huc_1]

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.

[Indrajit_1]

Hi;

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

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

In solaris.
#admintool

Cheers
Indrajit

[Paul Cross_1]

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