Darren, Gary:
We are in the process of removing root password fields from the
livecd GUI installation of OpenSolaris. See bug 1436
(http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1436). As part of the
fix, we are forcing the creation of an admin user. In essence the
super-user (root) becomes a role. So after a successful installation,
the user can login as the administrative user created during the livecd
install and can use pfexec successfully. Since we are not asking the
root password, what should be the password of root?
- If it set to empty password, does it creates a security issue?
- Does it make sense to setup a password for root even though we are
not asking the user to create a root password during installation?
- Does it make sense to force the administrative user to setup a
password for root in order to become a super user on the installed system?
Thanks,
Sundar
