good point. will do it next time. once again, thanks for your help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Any comments or statements made in this transmission reflect the views of the sender and are not necessarily the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Darren Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/28/2005 04:18 PM Please respond to Solaris-Users mailing list <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: [Solaris-Users] KernelID and patch 112438-03 > > Darren, thanks a lot!!!! > > able to install the patch using the second method, adding an install > account install:x:0:1:installpatch braindamage:/:/bin/true > > of course, for security reasons, the account was deleted after the patch > was installed. > not very comfortable with the idea of leaving an account with uid=0 even > though it is a locked account. > I think Sun has to do something to fix this. Creating an account with > uid=0 and leave it on the system is kind of risky. The auditors of my > company will not buy it. I've never had to use that method. Normally it's more of a problem with the directory that the patch is in (especially if NFS is involved). So extracting the patch into /tmp and applying from there has always been sufficient for me. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
