Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > 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?
It seems to assume that the user created during the install has been assigned "Primary Administrator" and that is regarded as a bug it shouldn't have been done that way. http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4885 > - If it set to empty password, does it creates a security issue? Depends on the customers needs. > - 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? How would anyone know what it was then ? > - 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? I'm not sure we are ready to do this yet I think 4885 needs to be resolved first. -- Darren J Moffat
