Trusted AIX privileges

The following privileges are available on Trusted AIX®. A synopsis and description of each privilege and its uses is provided. Some privileges form a hierarchy, where one privilege can grant all of the rights associated with another privilege.

When checking for privileges, the system first checks to determine if the process has the lowest privilege needed, and then proceeds up the hierarchy checking for the presence of more powerful privileges. For example, a process with the PV_AU_ privilege automatically has the PV_AU_ADMIN, PV_AU_ADD, PV_AU_PROC, PV_AU_READ, and PV_AU_WRITE privilege and a process with the PV_ROOT privilege automatically has all of the privileges listed below except the PV_SU_ privileges.