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ModeMeaninguThis role is a user role. That is, the role name must be an existing user on the system.gThis role is a group role. That is, the role name must be an existing group on the system.sThis role is a special role, meaning it does not belong to a user or group and does not require an enforced secure policy base to be included in the ruleset.lLowercase L. This role has learning enabled.AThis role is an administrative role, thus it has special privileges that normal roles do not have. In particular, this role bypasses the additional ptrace and library loading restrictions. GThis role can use gradm to authenticate to the kernel. A policy for gradm will automatically be added to the role.NThis role does not require authentication. To access this role, use 'gradm -n <rolename>'.PThis role uses Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) for authentication.TThis role has Trusted Path Execution (TPE) enabled. RThe role is persistent. When the shell/session in which authorization was done is terminated, spawned processes won't be dropped to non-special role. Do NOT use this flag with any role that does anything but shut the system down.
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