See also, Solaris' Role-Based Access Control and Privileges models. Privileges (seems to fit the post): https://blogs.oracle.com/casper/entry/solaris_privilege

See also, Solaris' Role-Based Access Control and Privileges models. Privileges (seems to fit the post): https://blogs.oracle.com/casper/entry/solaris_privileges https://blogs.oracle.com/casper/entry/solaris_privileges http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/4075-Less-known-Solaris-features-RBAC-and-Privileges-Part-3-Privileges.html http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/4075-Less-known-Solaris-fea... Programming with Privileges Example: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/819-2145/ch3priv-25082.html#priv-12 http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/819-2145/ch3priv-25... Overview: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/4077-Less-known-Solaris-features-RBAC-and-Privileges.html http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/4077-Less-known-Solaris-fea... In particular, the Solaris privileges model allows a program to gracefully degrade functionality and drop and reinstate privileges at different points of execution.