"David Mackintosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:03:29PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > "David Mackintosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > PROBLEM: Sun Ray services never returned from "Warm Service Restart"
> > > after policy change.
> >
> > If you do report it then please include inforamtion about what was
> > happening on that Sun Ray before you made the policy change (was it
> > showing a greeter, was it logged in, was a smartcard inserted),
> > what the policy was originally, and what you changed the policy to.
> 
> ...OK, I understand: the policy change I made did require that cards
> and sessions become registered; this would probably cause the active
> session to become orphaned, as it wasn't registered before.
> 
> That said, it shouldn't take too much logic to decide if a pending
> policy change will orphan a session; the GUI could then either warn
> about using a warm start, or not have the option at all.

Sure, that's possible, as long as you're only trying to figure out
whether a session could theoretically be orphaned and not whether
one is actually going to be orphaned.

> So it isn't a severe bug -- it is a "don't do that" (which in my
> opinion is a bug, since if we shouldn't "do that", the system should
> actively warn against it at the least) or a documentation gap.

Ah, but nobody ever reads the documentation so there's no point 
fixing it there.  (Well, other than to provide an excuse after
the fact for why things didn't work the way the customer wanted.)

> Who/where should I report it to?

To the srss-feedback-ext alias at sun dot com.  Which has,
unfortunately, recently started to collect spam so it'll probably
go away shortly after 3.1 FCS.

OttoM.
__ 
ottomeister

Disclaimer: These are my poinions.  I do not speak for my employer.


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