Wences.Michel at Sun.COM wrote: > Howdy! > > I think this is a great idea! > > Except I would suggest being a little bit more aggressive. By default, > this should be as it is done in MAC OS X; during install, create a user > account and add primary administrator to that account up front no > questions aked, no way to opt out.
For the general Solaris case I think this is too hardline. For Solaris Express Developer Edition installs I think this would be fine not to ask. > If you think this is to harsh for all cases, you may want to consider > that for special Use Cases, where there is a hard requirement for > installing root up front, you could add some kind of legacy flag to opt > out of the "default install" or just make that type of install part of a > customized install. For the moment that will be available since if you don't pick "Developer Edition" you won't be running the new installer anyway. For the advanced install cases where it is all "hands off" there will be jumpstart sysidcfg (or what ever replaces it) -- Darren J Moffat