On 8/19/07, Mike Gerdts <mgerdts at gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/19/07, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote: > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > Roland Mainz wrote: > > > > What about adding an option to the installer which offers two choices > > > > IMo it should make both sides happy (default is [1] and machines used to > > > > run the test suites pick [2])... > > > > > > Unfortunately, adding questions to the installer makes a whole bunch > > > of other people unhappy, who have been on a crusade to simplify Solaris > > > installation by reducing the questions it asks at install time. > > > > Grumpf... the idea was to get something like a compromise between both > > sides. I know the idea isn't perfect but AFAIK the "make root's home dir > > /root" is far larger than the "keep number of installer questions > > low"-camp... :-) > > I would tend to bet that those that care where root's home directory > is (and especially those that have a reason that they want it at /) > are not terribly likely to be using an interactive installation > program. I would vote for having it move to /root by default and > allowing JASS or similar finishing scripts take care of moving it, if > needed. > > Mike > > -- > Mike Gerdts > http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > security-discuss mailing list > security-discuss at opensolaris.org >
It seems now there's been at least a few discussions in various places over default configurations where I think it could be argued there isn't necessairly one good answer -- i.e. it's mostly a matter of preference. What I think would be nice is allow these things to be configurable at install time. I know there is a desire to minimize the amount of information the installer prompts the user for. What I think might be a nice compromise is to pick a default for such settings (root location, extra privileges for a console user, etc.), then merely provide a non-interactive way to override them that's fairly easy to do. Perhaps by extending the jumpstart profile (or it's equivalent _if_ there are any changes w/ caiman -- I haven't looked too closely) to include these parameters (just one idea). That way, users aren't bombarded with 1,000 questions, but those that wish to change the default behavior can still do so without having to necessarily resort to post-install script hackery.
