PRIVILEGE(4)                                                      PRIVILEGE(4)


NAME
     privilege - privilege database

DESCRIPTION
     /var/sysadm/privilege is an ASCII file containing entries granting
     privileges to users.  Each line consists of the name of a privilege, a
     colon, and then a comma separated list of user names.

     /var/sysadm/privilege is used by checkpriv(1M) and runpriv(1M) to help
     determine whether a user has been granted a privilege.  checkpriv and
     runpriv also look in the directory /var/sysadm/defaultPrivileges for
     default privileges and in the file /var/sysadm/privilegedUsers for
     privileged users.  See defaultPrivileges(4) and privilegedUsers(4).

NOTE
     Do not edit /var/sysadm/privilege by hand.  The commands addpriv(1M) and
     rmpriv(1M) are provided for editing the privilege database.

FILES
     /var/sysadm/privilege
     /var/sysadm/defaultPrivileges
     /var/sysadm/privilegedUsers

SEE ALSO
     sysmgr(1M), defaultPrivileges(4), privilegedUsers(4), runpriv(1M),
     checkpriv(1M), addpriv(1M), rmpriv(1M), adddefpriv(1M), rmdefpriv(1M),
     addprivuser(1M), rmprivuser(1M).


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