Ivan Wang wrote:
> <snipped>
>   
>> In that case just throw Solaris Express over the
>> wall, and re-name it 
>> Open Solaris.
>>
>> If you call RBAC cheaper and quicker, them maybe you
>> have not 
>> implemented it before. For a home user it would be
>> almost the same as 
>> asking them to implement a NIS+ domain for their
>> laptop.
>>     
>
> I am not sure configuring is that arduous, unless the sudo configuration you 
> expected in "home user" case is just a way not to give out root password, and 
> everyone on the system can "sudo su -"
>   
It certainly has more files with more options to configure by default. 
If you want to give access for one or more commands for a user, you can 
generally do it in one place with one tool and generally on one line. To 
do that with Solaris you need to create a profile in prof_attr (unless 
one already exists), add the command to exec_attr, and then assign the 
profile to the user in user_attr. The complexity then increases when you 
user LDAP rather then files to store these attributes. Then throw in a 
mix of Solaris 8, 9, & 10 servers using it.
 
> RBAC is a very flexible and useful feature in Solaris, for example, I can set 
> up a profile for opening raw socket and give that profile to certain users, 
> they only have to pfexec their binary. NO root privilege is involved. NO role 
> involved even. 
I have done this in the past. I am well aware that RBAC can do a lot 
more that sudo (which is personally why I do not use it). It is just the 
case the works perfectly fine for a lot of people.

> NO shared role password involved of course.
>   

Actually no password in this case.

> I am not against putting sudo in indiana, since you can always build it from 
> source. However, the question would be how a complete GNU userland can make 
> users aware of they are using solaris instead of Sobuntu (pun intended ;)
>   
At least enough to satisfy the goals of indiana.
 
Doug
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