John Sonnenschein wrote:
> Is there a particular reason we require the Primary Administrator
> profile to be in effect in order to run pkg(5) ?
> 
> Short-term adding a line like "Software
> Installation:solaris:cmd:::/usr/bin/pkg:euid=0" to
> /etc/security/exec_attr would allow a sysadmin to grant Software
> Installation to a junior admin without requiring full privs.

Is there any real difference?   Once you can install software,
you can install a package that has a setuid-root copy of /bin/sh
and get the same privileges.

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-           [email protected]
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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