On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:48:51PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> It doesn't have to be a full-fledged user-image service framework.  It
> doesn't have to have restarters, XML manifests, and all that.  It should
> suffice to have:
> 
> a) a way to register user image actuators
> b) a tool to run them
> c) a hook at logon time that runs (b)
> b) let pkg(1) run (b) directly IFF pkg is executing in the context of a
>    login session that is using the image that pkg is modifying.

Oh, I suppose that an SMF service can do all that (since it could use
su(1) to run the user image actuators).

Of course, there's no way for an action on a user image to affect
existing, remote login sessions.  But surely that's been understood all
along...
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