HP-UX Containers (SRP) A.03.01 Release Notes

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operating system and share hardware resources for efficient use. To protect one system container from
affecting other containers or the system as a whole, certain restrictions are in place. These restrictions
may lead to behavioral differences in a system container when compared to an individual physical
system.
1.11.1 Disallowed operations in system containers
All users in a system container (including root) are prevented from performing the following list of
administrative tasks. These administrative tasks must be performed in the global view:
Kernel configuration management
Kernel tunable management
System boot configuration
Reading kernel memory
Make kernel
System crash configuration
Kernel Registry Services
DLKM management
Creating device files
Changing system time
Shutdown/reboot the physical system
Swap space management
Logical volume management
Physical devices management
Network interface card configuration
IP Address configuration
Network tunable configuration
Compartment rule configuration
Bypassing compartment rules using overriding privileges
Enable/disable auditing
Enable/disable accounting
IPFilter configuration
IPSec configuration
SRP configuration
SD software installation (swinstall/swremove/swconfig)
1.11.2 Disallowed privileges in system containers
A set of privileges is disallowed in each system container to prevent users from performing
administrative tasks that might have an impact on system wide resources or operations. Commands
and system calls performing the administrative tasks that are disallowed in a system container will
return an error. The following privileges (see privileges(5)) are disallowed within a system
container:
ACCOUNTING
Allows a process to control the process accounting system. Example: acct(1M), acctsh(1M)
AUDCONTROL
Allows a process to start, modify, and stop the auditing system. Example: audsys(1M)