Piping up..... > > > It's unclear to me what sort of user would ever be invoking these > things. Without a usage model, it's hard to speculate on the right > profile to use, or even if there is one. > All sorts of users may want to use these utilities as Solaris doesn't fully enumerate what devices are attached (esp. if there is no extant driver for them). If you add the SANE scanner package, you need some mechanism to find SCSI based scanners. If you want to access a media changer that is otherwise not driven already via sgen usage, you would use these utilities and mtx to manipulate the changer. > As Gary has noted, it looks like the required permissions (euid==0) > specified by the project team may be in excess of what's actually > required to make these things work on Solaris, so that's another issue > to resolve. > >
*shrug* - this doesn't seem all that different than attaching random USB dongles. It's the user's computer (if they have physical access to it) to plug a device into. It's up to Solaris to pick a sensible permissions model for the user to access their own devices.
