* Philip Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > James Hughes wrote: > > This is currently being worked on. In the mean time, you could just do > > the command > > alias sudo=pfexec > > and let me know how it works for you. > > > > James Gosling wrote: > >> While it isn't on the list of TBD packages, I'd like to volunteer to add > >> "sudo". Every time I install Solaris, it's always the first upgrade I > >> make. It seems silly that it's missing. How do I go about adding it? > > > I think the fundamental issue here is: > > The interface for sudo, is a well-known and relatively easy interface. > > > The interface for (administering) rbac, is not. > > Most people dont give a damn about "finer grained control". they just want > to get done, what needs to get done, in the simplest way possible. > sudo is the best fit for it. > > "alias sudo=pfexec", does not meet that want, as well as regular sudo does.
And how exactly does it not meet that want? Particularly on OpenSolaris 2008.05 where root is already configured as a role and the initial user created at install time is given that role. I'm not saying it does meet everyone's needs, but just saying that it doesn't without clear and rational reasons *why* it doesn't isn't helpful imo. I'm all for including sudo (or any other piece of software) but given equivalent pre-existing integrated functionality I'd like to hear why we need to include something else rather than fix/update the pre-existing solution (and then add the other solution for people who just don't care that they can do the same thing with the pre-existing solution). FWIW I'd never used RBAC prior to Indiana (having exclusively used sudo on Linux, Mac OS/X and Solaris). After creating an alias as mentioned above I've never noticed a difference in behaviour (given my usage patterns of course). So, here's at least one datapoint that pfexec just gets done what needs to get done, simply. :-) Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
