Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com writes: On 11/10/11 23:00, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? http://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/completely_disabling_root_logins_on It appears to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Gabriele Bulfon [mailto:gbul...@sonicle.com] Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? How about a zpool version higher than 28? AKA, all the stuff that's now in closed source development. Not in OI/Illumos. What

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:47:56AM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Gabriele Bulfon [mailto:gbul...@sonicle.com] Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? What is the status of the promised sources? Sources

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread James Carlson
Gary Mills wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:47:56AM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Gabriele Bulfon [mailto:gbul...@sonicle.com] Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? What is the status of the promised sources?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Edward Martinez
On 11/11/11 06:48, James Carlson wrote: Gary Mills wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:47:56AM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Gabriele Bulfon [mailto:gbul...@sonicle.com] Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? What is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Hillel Lubman
It's a make it or break it moment. If Oracle holds to their promise to release the source especially for ZFS - good. If they will make ZFS closed from now on - do you think illumos can manage to pull it through on its own? Regards, Hillel. On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:48 AM, James Carlson

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread James Carlson
Edward Martinez wrote: On 11/11/11 06:48, James Carlson wrote: But sources were indeed promised at some unspecified date after the binary release. Hope they carry through. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2010-August/059310.html Some solaris 11 code were

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread James Carlson
Hillel Lubman wrote: It's a make it or break it moment. If Oracle holds to their promise to release the source especially for ZFS - good. If they will make ZFS closed from now on - do you think illumos can manage to pull it through on its own? Yes, but there are some interesting technical

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Nov 11, 2011, at 11:55 AM, James Carlson wrote: Edward Martinez wrote: On 11/11/11 06:48, James Carlson wrote: But sources were indeed promised at some unspecified date after the binary release. Hope they carry through.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com writes: It appears to no longer even be possible to circumvent the suggested usage of root account and allow root logins. Anyone know for sure if it is still possible to enforce an old fashioned root account with regular login access? If so how

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/11/11 15:56, Harry Putnam wrote: sol11 will not let you chose your own passwd for root if it doesn't have either a number or special char in it. Yes, passwd/PAM now enforces the password strength checks for root as it has always done for normal users. See passwd(1)

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-10 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? What is the status of the promised sources? Inviato da iPad ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/10/11 23:00, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? http://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/completely_disabling_root_logins_on http://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/password_caching_for_solaris_su