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]>


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