HP HP-UX 11i White Paper

Whitepaper on Method to enable Privileged Process Debugging

Published: October 2012

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Contents

1 Overview..................................................................................................4

2 Problem statement......................................................................................5

3 Solution....................................................................................................6

What is RBAC?........................................................................................................................6

What is FGP?..........................................................................................................................6

Problem with debugging a process with elevated privileges............................................................6

Solution using RBAC.................................................................................................................7

4 Limitations.................................................................................................9

5 Summary................................................................................................10

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