Admind or Sadmind

A distributed system administration daemon that carries out security tasks when administrative tasks are performed across the network. SunOS 5.4 and below use admind, and SunOS 5.5 and above use sadmind.

The daemon is started automatically by inetd whenever a request is received, or it can be started from the command line. Before the request is acted upon, the daemon must authenticate the client to the server. Once the client identity is verified, the daemon uses this identity to allow authorization.

The default security level for admind is SYS. You can use the more secure DES security level by specifying the -S 2 option when invoking the daemon, after first making sure that all servers in the domain are properly set up to use DES security.