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User Commands allocate(1)
NAME
allocate - device allocation
SYNOPSIS
allocate [-s] [-w] [-F] [-U uname] [-z zonename] device
allocate [-s] [-w] [-F] [-U uname] [-z zonename] -g dev-type
DESCRIPTION
The allocate utility manages the ownership of devices
through its allocation mechanism. It ensures that each dev-
ice is used by only one qualified user at a time.
The device argument specifies the device to be manipulated.
To preserve the integrity of the device's owner, the allo-
cate operation is executed on all the device special files
associated with that device.
The default allocate operation allocates the device special
files associated with device to the uid of the current pro-
cess.
Only authorized users may allocate a device. The required
authorizations are specified in device_allocate(4).
If the system is configured with Trusted Extensions, allo-
cate runs the clean program for the device before it grants
access to the caller to that device. For devices with remov-
able media that have a mountable file system, allocate
mounts the media if the caller chooses.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-F device Force allocates either free or pre-
allocated devices. This option is often used
with the -U option to allocate/reallocate
devices to a specific user. Only those
users that have solaris.device.revoke
authorization are allowed to use this
option.
-g dev-type Allocates devices with a device-type match-
ing dev-type. The dev-type argument speci-
fies the device type to be operated on.
-s Silent. Suppresses any diagnostic output.
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-U uname Uses the user ID uname instead of the user
ID of the current process when performing
the allocate operation. Only a user with the
solaris.device.revoke authorization is per-
mitted to use this option.
The following options are supported with Trusted Extensions:
-w Runs the device cleaning program in
a windowing environment. If a win-
dowing version of the program
exists, it is used. Otherwise, the
standard version is run in a termi-
nal window.
-z zonename Allocates device to the zone speci-
fied by zonename.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
device Specifies the name of the device to be allo-
cated.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
non-zero An error occurred.
FILES
/etc/security/device_allocate
/etc/security/device_maps
/etc/security/dev/*
/etc/security/lib/*
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
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____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWcsu |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Interface Stability | See below. |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
The invocation is Evolving. The options are Evolving. The
output is unstable.
SEE ALSO
deallocate(1), list_devices(1), bsmconv(1M), dminfo(1M),
mkdevalloc(1M), mkdevmaps(1M), device_allocate(4),
device_maps(4), attributes(5)
Controlling Access to Devices
NOTES
The functionality described in this man page is available
only if the Basic Security Module (BSM) has been enabled.
See bsmconv(1M) for more information.
On systems configured with Trusted Extensions, the func-
tionality is enabled by default.
/etc/security/dev, mkdevalloc(1M), and mkdevmaps(1M) might
not be supported in a future release of the Solaris Operat-
ing Environment.
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