Dave Miner writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > Maybe. I think you'd have to establish precedent to do it, and there > > are no existing tools that allow dynamic UID creation at upgrade or > > install time (no alternate root for 'useradd'), and I don't think it'd > > work right with packaging if you have to deliver any file system > > objects owned by this UID. > > > > Actually, the user action in IPS can do exactly that, though I don't > think we're using that particular feature yet.
You'd have to deliver using IPS directly through the OpenSolaris dock somehow; there's no supported way to add users dynamically in the existing System Vr4 packaging, so the usual consolidations and "Integrate" script won't cut it. In any event, the point was that this seems like a lot of artifice for an uncertain feature. (The simplest solution, assuming that the feature is needed, is to run with all privileges and then bracket as I described before. That solution works and doesn't require packaging heroics.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
