On 03/ 2/10 05:54 PM, Dave Miner wrote:
> On 03/ 2/10 12:38 PM, Matt Keenan wrote:
>> On 03/ 2/10 05:01 PM, Dave Miner wrote:
>>> On 03/ 2/10 11:51 AM, Keith Mitchell wrote:
>>>> Hi Matt,
>>>>
>>>> Since the liveCD is intended to mimic the installed environment, would
>>>> it not make sense to remove the Primary Administrator role from the
>>>> 'jack' user delivered by SUNWslim-utils (instead of changing line 514;
>>>> line 558 would still need to change)? That way the default login
>>>> functions identically to what the user will have after the
>>>> installation.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I think a significant amount of documentation (in install, pkg,
>>>> and elsewhere) exists that calls for running "pfexec<cmd>". I think
>>>> this change renders that documentation invalid, are there bugs filed to
>>>> update these docs appropriately? Error messages as well sometimes
>>>> recommend running the command again with pfexec, and would need to be
>>>> updated, unless I misunderstand the implications of this change.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'd suggest we defer this particular change, as the switch to sudo was
>>> (somewhat to my surprise, though we'd been talking about it for way over
>>> a year) included in PSARC 2010/067 which is under discussion right now.
>>
>> No problem.
>>
>> Based on this proposal, will we (slim_install) be required to implement
>> addition of initial user to /etc/sudoers, as well as removal of Primary
>> Administrator profile ?
>>
>> If so I can at least prepare a webrev that does this, and if/when this
>> ARC case
>> gets approved we will be ready to roll with the change.
>>
>
> I'd recommend waiting, as there are multiple potential options depending
> on how the security team states their plans to deal with RBAC/sudo
> integration.

Wait I can do... :-)

thanks Dave.

Matt

>
> Dave
>
>> cheers
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>> - Keith
>>>>
>>>> On 03/ 2/10 05:24 AM, Matt Keenan wrote:
>>>>> Code review please for following bug :
>>>>> 4885 - User created by installer gets unsafe profile "Primary
>>>>> Administrator"
>>>>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4885
>>>>>
>>>>> Webrev:
>>>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~mattman/bug-4885/
>>>>>
>>>>> Code change is relatively trivial simply amending ict.c to sed out
>>>>> "profile=Primary Administrator," from /etc/user_attr for initial user.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is being implemented as a request during review of ARC case :
>>>>> PSARC/2007/284
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> Matt
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