> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:15:53 -0400
> From: James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com>
> Subject: Re: [install-discuss] Re: [Recap] Non-root install for Solaris 
packages

  Thanks for the clairification on the zones and IP 
  addresses.
  
> 
> > The other problem I hear wrt zones is that the O/S
> > administator is not the application administrator and
> > that there would have to be some communication
> > between the two to create a zone.

  The argument I heard was that having to ask the O/S
  administrator to even set up a zone is problematic.
  Once the zone is in place, things are fine.  

  Margot
  

> 
> That's not quite true.
> 
> Non-global zone administrators can't touch the global zone, and thus
> can't affect the rest of the system.
> 
> They _can_ install their own local applications in their own zone, and
> that operation does _not_ require "communication" between the
> non-global zone administrator and the global zone administrator.
> 
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