On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 21:51 -0400, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > On May 23, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > > > On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:51 AM, Gary wrote: > >> > >> I must have missed that part of the thread but sudo predates Linux by at > >> least ten years; http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/history.html > >> > > > > It's the same old Solaris admin versus Linux admin thingy. Any > > shortcomings/non-existing feature in Solaris are ignored/brushed off and > > anything remotely 'Linux' related gets put on the grill immediately. > > > > I can understand wanting to keep the same interfaces but making rabid > > attacks on stuff that are additional just because they are the current > > Linux practice is really irrational. Hence stuff like sudo is a Linux > > thing... > > Nothing wrong with sudo, or even with having both RBAC and sudo. > > Something wrong with changing Solaris to look more like Linux when > there's no good reason except familiarity for Linux users, since > it _breaks_ familiarity for Solaris users. I don't think it's unreasonable > that might upset people, although this case is not a great example of one > worth picking a fight over, IMO. > > OTOH, either finding a better way to use RBAC for this particular purpose, or > using sudo instead, is probably an improvement on how RBAC was previously > being used for this.
+1 What he said. Well put. -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
