> > On Aug 2, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Mike DeMarco wrote: > > >> This is a variant of the convenience argument. > >> Systems with root as a > >> ole require a local user account with Primary > >> Administrator role. When > >> I installed OpenSolaris it did the right thing and > >> created such an > >> account that does not depend on NIS or LDAP and is > >> thus insulated from > >> issues with those servers. That user account > should > >> only have local > >> paths in the PATH and a local home directory for > >> greater reliability. > > > > Why do you believe root should be a role? > > I suspect the line of thinking went something like > this: > > - We've been telling people for a while not to log in > as root. > - They keep logging in as root anyway. > - We'll make it so they *can't* log in as root. > That'll learn 'em. ;) > I'm not totally against this; in fact, root is still > a role on my systems. It does lead to some > unexpected consequences you have to think through if > you use network authentication, is all. > > -- > > David Brodbeck > System Administrator, Linguistics > University of Washington > > > > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] >
I tried to convert root back to a standard user and build 134 broke. It would not complete the boot and just hung. Had to boot the LiveCD suck in the zpool and change root back to a role before it would finish booting. No messages, no crash, just stopped booting. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
