On 03/19/10 04:53 AM, Jan Damborsky wrote: > Hi Dave, > > thank you very much for your comments. > Please see my response in line. > > Jan > > > On 03/18/10 11:08 PM, Dave Miner wrote: >> Hi Jan, >> >> Looks generally good, a few small things. >> >> If configuring multiple user accounts turns out to be required, how >> would this be accommodated? Multiple user_account_xx property groups? > > To be honest, I initially haven't thought about this possibility, > but it could be addressed as you propose. > > The only issue I could see is that for additional user accounts we > would not be able to take advantage of fix for bug 6934233. > Fix for that bug will allow to omit specifying property types in > SMF profile (and thus in System Configuration manifest) for those > SMF properties which type is defined in SMF manifest. >
Unlike some, I don't regard that as being a particularly difficult hurdle. At the moment I'm not necessarily suggesting you change it, but it's an easy RFE to anticipate. >> >> What about providing for an alternate path to the user's home directory? > > I was not sure if there is a need for this and if there might be a > potential issue when we would like to provide user with mechanism > to specify name of ZFS dataset, since home dir is to be created on shared > ZFS dataset and name of target root pool might not be known at the time > System Configuration manifest is constructed. > > If we would like to allow the user only to customize ZFS mountpoint of > <root_pool>/export/home/<login> ZFS dataset, I think that should be fine. > > If not specified or set to '' (e.g. in SC portion in default AI manifest), > it would expand to /export/home/<login> as it does today. > > Do you think it could cover the user's needs or there might be also need > to customize name of ZFS dataset ? > I'm not sure we do at all, again I'm mostly asking questions about RFE's that seem to have some likelihood of appearing. Dave
