Prepare an existing or upgraded Solaris installation for Trusted Extensions. 

Prepare an Installed Solaris System for Trusted Extensions

Install the Solaris OS with Trusted Extensions features in mind. 

Install a Solaris System to Support Trusted Extensions

Complete the preparation of your Solaris system. 

Task Map: Preparing a Solaris System for Trusted Extensions

Back up your system. 

For a Trusted Solaris 8 system, back up the system as described in the documentation for your release. A labeled backup can be restored to each identically labeled zone. 

For a Solaris system, see System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

Gather information and make decisions about your system and your Trusted Extensions network. 

Collecting Information and Making Decisions Before Enabling Trusted Extensions

Enable Trusted Extensions. 

Enable Solaris Trusted Extensions

Configure the system. 

For a system with a monitor, see Task Map: Configuring Trusted Extensions.

For a headless system, see Headless System Configuration in Trusted Extensions (Task Map).

For a Sun Ray^TM, see Sun Ray Server Software 4.1 Installation and Configuration Guide for the Solaris Operating System. To configure initial client-server communication, see Configuring Trusted Network Databases (Task Map) in Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator’s Procedures.

For a laptop, go to the OpenSolaris Community: Security web page. Click Trusted Extensions. On the Trusted Extensions page under Laptop Configurations, click Laptop instructions.

To prevent networks from communicating with the global zone, configure the vni0 interface. For an example, see the Laptop instructions.

Starting in the Solaris 10 10/08 release, you do not need to configure the vni0 interface. By default, the lo0 interface is an all-zones interface. For dhcp to work with Trusted Extensions, other laptop instructions still apply.

Protect machine hardware by requiring a password to change hardware settings. 

Controlling Access to System Hardware in System Administration Guide: Security Services

Configure labels. Labels must be configured for your site. If you plan to use the default label_encodings file, you can skip this task.

Check and Install Your Label Encodings File

If you are running an IPv6 network, you modify the /etc/system file to enable IP to recognize labeled packets.

Enable IPv6 Networking in Trusted Extensions

If the CIPSO Domain of Interpretation (DOI) of your network nodes is different from 1, specify the DOI in the /etc/system file.

Configure the Domain of Interpretation

If you plan to use a Solaris ZFS snapshot to clone zones, create the ZFS pool. 

Create ZFS Pool for Cloning Zones

Boot to activate a labeled environment. Upon login, you are in the global zone. The system's label_encodings file enforces mandatory access control (MAC).

Reboot and Log In to Trusted Extensions

Initialize the Solaris Management Console. This GUI is used to label zones, among other tasks. 

Initialize the Solaris Management Console Server in Trusted Extensions

Create the Security Administrator role and other roles that you plan to use locally. You create these roles just as you would create them in the Solaris OS. 

You can delay this task until the end. For the consequences, see Devising a Configuration Strategy for Trusted Extensions.

Creating Roles and Users in Trusted Extensions

Verify That the Trusted Extensions Roles Work

If you plan to use files to administer Trusted Extensions, you can skip the following tasks. 

No configuration is required for the files naming service. 

If you have an existing Sun Java^TM System Directory Server (LDAP server), add Trusted Extensions databases to the server. Then make your first Trusted Extensions system a proxy of the LDAP server.

If you do not have an LDAP server, then configure your first system as the server. 

Chapter 5, Configuring LDAP for Trusted Extensions (Tasks)

Manually set up an LDAP toolbox for the Solaris Management Console. The toolbox can be used to modify Trusted Extensions attributes on network objects. 

Configuring the Solaris Management Console for LDAP (Task Map)

For systems that are not the LDAP server or proxy server, make them an LDAP client. 

Make the Global Zone an LDAP Client in Trusted Extensions

In the LDAP scope, create the Security Administrator role and other roles that you plan to use. 

You can delay this task until the end. For the consequences, see Devising a Configuration Strategy for Trusted Extensions.

Creating Roles and Users in Trusted Extensions

Verify That the Trusted Extensions Roles Work

Run the txzonemgr command.

Follow the menus to configure the network interfaces, then create and customize the first labeled zone. Then, copy or clone the rest of the zones. 

Creating Labeled Zones

Or, use Trusted CDE actions. 

Appendix B, Using CDE Actions to Install Zones in Trusted Extensions

(Optional) After all zones are successfully customized, add zone-specific network addresses and default routing to the labeled zones. 

Adding Network Interfaces and Routing to Labeled Zones

Identify additional remote hosts that require a label, one or more multilevel ports, or a different control message policy. 

Configuring Trusted Network Databases (Task Map) in Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator’s Procedures

Create a multilevel home directory server, then automount the installed zones. 

Creating Home Directories in Trusted Extensions

Configure auditing, mount file systems, and perform other tasks before enabling users to log in to the system. 

Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator’s Procedures

Add users from an NIS environment to your LDAP server. 

Add an NIS User to the LDAP Server

Add a host and its labeled zones to the LDAP server. 

Configuring Trusted Network Databases (Task Map) in Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator’s Procedures