On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Tim Knitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  Tom,
>
>
>  > Tim,
>  > A few questions/comments:
>  >
>  > 1. How will this work for user images being manipulated by non-root users?
>  >
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>  It won't since only root can manage Boot Environments. I'll have to add
>  an uid check and skip the recovery stuff for user images.

If I might interject, why a uid check?

Can't users with a uid other than zero technically perform these
operations with sufficient privileges?

The last time I asked another Sun engineer about this, he said the
correct way to deal with these operations was to attempt them, and if
they fail with a permissions error, you know you can't do it :-)

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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