Bernd Schemmer wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: > > Maybe I'm the only one that thinks this way, but: > > Reading about this topic (turn root account into a RBAC) and some others > (like the discussions in the SMF list about putting almost all > information into the SMF repository) it seems to me that Solaris is > going the "Windows way" to make life complicated.
Actually I'd say quite the opposite, Windows adopted the UNIX way! > Fortunately Solaris is still Unix and should not try to mimic another OS. This isn't about mimicing but about doing what makes sense, it just happens that Windows and MacOS X do effectively the same thing using slightly different implementations (actually reasonably close in the MacOS X case). > SMF and RBAC are very useful but plain Solaris should continue to be a > Unix so that all the people that know Unix can use it without learning > all new from the beginning. I disagree. Solaris should be Solaris and aim to be the best UNIX out there and if that means being more secure and using our core functionality in a way that means we are slightly different then so be it. -- Darren J Moffat
