On Oct 31, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Dan Price wrote: > On Tue 31 Oct 2006 at 04:03PM, James Carlson wrote: >> Mike "Ford" Ditto writes: >>> Riny Qian wrote: >>>> Darren J Moffat wrote: >>>>> If you need help working out how to have a the vt? instances >>>>> only active in the global zone then ask the smf-discuss list >>>>> for help. >>>> >>>> We can check if we're in the global zone in the smf start method >>>> (console-login); if not, disable all virtual console instances. >>> >>> I think the right thing here is not to check what zone you're in, >>> but >>> rather to check which devices are available. I would like to >>> assign, >>> e.g. /dev/term/vt[456] each to different zones, which should >>> cause the >>> corresponding login instances to be disabled in the global zone and >>> enabled in the corresponding zone(s). >> >> Having a virtual console attached as a zone console sounds like a >> nifty idea to me. It doesn't sound as simple to achieve as just >> logging into the global zone and doing zlogin -C, but potentially >> useful. > > Does "nifty" translate into a customer use case here? I'm wary of > putting roadblocks in front of an obviously useful project in > pursuit of > not-obviously-useful functionality.
Would this allow Not needing all privileges to get to the console? I would translate that as nifty.
