On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 10:09 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 09:51 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > > > On May 23, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:51 AM, Gary wrote: > >>> > >>> I must have missed that part of the thread but sudo predates Linux by at > >>> least ten years; http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/history.html > >>> > >> > >> It's the same old Solaris admin versus Linux admin thingy. Any > >> shortcomings/non-existing feature in Solaris are ignored/brushed off and > >> anything remotely 'Linux' related gets put on the grill immediately. > >> > >> I can understand wanting to keep the same interfaces but making rabid > >> attacks on stuff that are additional just because they are the current > >> Linux practice is really irrational. Hence stuff like sudo is a Linux > >> thing... > > > > Nothing wrong with sudo, or even with having both RBAC and sudo. > > > > Something wrong with changing Solaris to look more like Linux when > > there's no good reason except familiarity for Linux users, since > > it _breaks_ familiarity for Solaris users. I don't think it's unreasonable > > that might upset people, although this case is not a great example of one > > worth picking a fight over, IMO. > > Even for me. When I installed OI_147, I had to go and add that Primary > administrator role (what's that about secure installations?) so that I > can use pfexec. But sheesh, going rabid to the point to treating sudo as > a GNU / Linux thing? > > > > > > OTOH, either finding a better way to use RBAC for this particular purpose, > > or using sudo instead, is probably an improvement on how RBAC was > > previously being used for this. > > > > Using sudo to switch to 'administrative' mode is something that I don't > really like. It's an Ubuntu thing. sudo is for scripts and for giving > limited access to certain stuff to certain accounts. If I had to become > root, I prefer doing 'su -'. > > So please, drop the 'sudo is a Linux thing'. It is not. It is specific > to only one particularly popular Linux distro aimed at users and not > admins. For the record.
Perchance did you read the thread referenced?? <https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4885> -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
