Acknowledgments

Many people contributed to the design, writing, and production of the fourth edition of this book. Sun Microsystems Press and the author would like to thank the following people for their contributions.

Gordon Marler for his excellent technical input and many examples. Gordon unpacked his first Sun workstation in 1987 and has been fascinated by UNIX ever since. He has worked as a UNIX System Administrator and Architect in Texas, Washington state, and New York City for various firms in the pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and financial fields, as well as a government contract here and there. He is currently a UNIX System Engineer for a global financial service institution and lives in New Jersey.

Peter H. Gregory, author of Solaris Security and Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8 Study Guide, for organizing Gordon's help as a technical reviewer.

Bill Lane, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for enabling the author to participate in the Solaris 9 Beta program and to Larissa Brown, Miguel Ulloa, and Beauty Shields, for help with administrative details.

James Litchfield, Senior Staff Engineer, Solaris System Resource Services, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for information about new functionality in the Solaris 9 release.

Gary M. Gere, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for answering questions about Live Install functionality.

Matthew Williamson, Engineering Manager, Solaris Installation Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for answering questions about Live Install functionality and for reviewing Chapter 3, "Understanding the Flash Install and Live Upgrade Features."

The following members of the Solaris 9 Beta team, listed in alphabetical order, who were instrumental in answering questions and responding to my Solaris 9 Beta problem reports: Sally Beach, Tom Hardesty, and Beauty Shields.

Linda Gallops, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for technical help.

Those writers from Sun Technical Publications who contributed to the Solaris System Administration Guides Volumes I, II, and III, which were used as a technical reference resource.

The author would especially like to thank Mike Alread and Myrna Rivera of Sun Microsystems Press and Greg Doench, Senior Editor, Prentice Hall, for their unfailing enthusiasm, support, and friendship, Mary Lou Nohr for editing this manuscript with her usual skill and tact, and Wil Mara of Prentice Hall for production.

Thanks to the following people who contributed to the third edition of this book.

Peter Gregory, HartGregory Group, for reviewing the technical information in this book and for useful suggestions about adding new information.

Linda Gallops, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for technical help. Mary Lautner, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for providing useful information about the Solaris 8 release.

John Stearns, Technical Publications Manager, SSE Group, Sun Federal, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for providing answers to questions about Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) features.

Mary Lautman, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for providing answers to questions about Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) features and providing valuable input to Chapter 5.

Larissa Brown, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for helping put me in contact with the right people to help with new Solaris 8 functionality.

Those writers from Sun Technical Publications who contributed to the Solaris System Administration Guides Volumes I, II, and III, which were used as a technical reference resource.

The author would especially like to thank Rachel Borden of Sun Microsystems Press and Greg Doench, Senior Editor, Prentice Hall, for their unfailing enthusiasm, support, and friendship, Mary Lou Nohr for editing this manuscript with her usual skill and tact, and Wil Mara of Prentice Hall for production.

Thanks to the following people, who contributed to the second edition of this book.

Brett Bartow, Acquisitions Editor, Macmillan Technical Publishing, for his enthusiasm and support on this project.

Mary Lautner, Program Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for her invaluable help and assistance in providing the author with documentation and answers to numerous questions. Without Mary's help and the information she provided, the author would have been unable to complete this project.

Those writers from SunSoft Technical Publications who contributed to the Solaris System Administration Guide, which was used as a technical reference resource.

Lisa Gebken of Macmillan Technical Publishing for editing this manuscript.

Tobin Crockett, for networking the author's SPARCstation 10 and Macintosh PowerPC and setting up a network printer.

Rob Johnston, System Support Specialist, Sun Microsystems Computer Company, for installing Solaris 2.6 and troubleshooting hardware and software problems.

Tien Nguyen, System Support Specialist, SunSoft, Inc., for help in troubleshooting hardware and software problems.

Linda Gallops, SunSoft SQA, for help in tracking down information about modems.

Ken Erickson of SunSoft, for allowing the author to pester him with occasional technical questions.

The author would especially like to thank Rachel Borden and John Bortner of Sun Microsystems Press for their unfailing enthusiasm, support, and friendship.

Thanks to the following people, who contributed to the first edition of this book.

Connie Howard and Bridget Burke, SunSoft Publications managers, for their support and encouragement.

Randy Enger, SunSoft Engineering Manager, for help in gaining early access to the Solaris 2.1 administration tools. Special thanks are also due to Gordon Kass, Solaris 2.1 Product Manager, and Steve Hanlon, SunSoft Marketing.

Patrick Moffitt, SunOS Ambassador, for providing background information about the Service Access Facility. Patrick Moffitt and Cindy Swearingen, Technical Education Services, for providing a modem procedure that worked.

Rick Ramsey, SunSoft Technical Writer, for source information about NIS+, and for many discussions about good technical writing.

Keith Palmby, SunSoft Technical Writer, for source information about user environments.

Charla Mustard-Foote, SunSoft Technical Writer, for providing source information and the conversion table for Appendix A, and for calmly helping make software available for screen shots.

Bruce Sesnovich, SunSoft Technical Writer, for providing background information about the Service Access Facility and modem procedures.

Tom Amiro, SunSoft Technical Writer, for providing background information about administering user accounts and printers, and for early access to information about the Solaris 2.1 administration tools. Tom also deserves thanks for help in making software available for screen shots.

John Pew, Writing Consultant, for providing information and filters for converting raster files to GIF format.

Bill Edwards, Dave Miner, Jeff Parker, Chuck Kollars, Ken Kane, and Paul Sawyer—SunSoft Engineers in Billerica, MA—deserve thanks for reviewing information about NIS+ security, Administration Tool security, Database Manager, and User Manager.

Sam Cramer, SunSoft Engineer, for help with file system information. Bill Shannon, SunSoft Distinguished Engineer, for help with backup and restore information.

Pat Shriver, SunSoft Engineer, Robin Greynolds, SunSoft System Administrator, and Craig Mohrman, SunSoft Engineer, for technical review.

Karin Ellison, SunSoft Press, for parenting this book and for extraordinary assistance, including providing a Solaris 2.0 system for use on this project.

Thanks are also due to Melinda Levine, our editor at Ziff-Davis Press, and to Cheryl Holzaepfel, Managing Editor, for being so easy to work with.

And lastly, thanks to the engineers, writers, and marketing folks at SunSoft who helped with the SunSoft version of this book.