> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/system_config_design.txt. > > Please review and give your feedback. > > Thanks, > Sundar
Hi, thanks for sharing this doc- I'm cc-int networking-discuss, where we are also looking at various improvements to Configuration..some questions whose answers are not clear to me from reading the document above.. Regarding option (c) which seems to be the favored approach- most of solaris cannot be configured using smf today, e.g., things like user account, root passwd etc are not smf properties, but rather, they are stored in flat files. Taking the user account as an example, one adds a new user to the live system using useradd(1m) and this results in modifications to several files in /etc. How does the proposed design envision this happening with smf? Moreover, there's the question of input validation. An application like useradd(1m) is capable of doing semantic validation of the input data that is specific to the task being performed. How can a general framework like SMF provide the same level of input validation? --Sowmini -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
