Gary Winiger writes: > > * Regarding Glenn Skinner's issue of "one more special-purpose uid": > > > > Do we really need another special-purpose user-id? The project team > > will investigate whether this is really needed, including the > > possibility of using "root" with dropped privileges. > > > > There should be advice in the opinion for this case to the appropriate > > management team on defining architecture suitable to allow projects to > > use user-id's other than "root". > > I mentioned there was a discussion of a similar request for > new userID from a case of Nico's. That case seems to be > PSARC/2008/507 OpenLDAP for OpenSolaris. I thought there > was more discussion than seems to be in the case log. > Possibly it occurred off line. Perhaps I misremembered. > Perhaps someone else has the case I was thinking of.
I think it was also discussed in 2008/260, but, yes, 2008/507 was the main thread I remember. It sure would be nice to have a solution before the 99 magic numbers are all gone. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> 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
