[indiana-discuss] REVIEW System Admin. Guide for the Back to School Kit

[Cindy.Swearingen at Sun.COM]

Hi Dave,

I see your point about the second user account so we'll drop it.

This issue also highlights a transition between managing user accounts
with home directories as a UFS directory and home directories as ZFS 
file systems.

I need to file a bug against the user account manager because it creates
a user account with a home dir as a directory not a ZFS file system. If 
I create a ZFS file system and feed it to user account manager, it
doesn't setup the user home dir ownership correctly.

In the meantime, I'll figure something else out.

Thanks for feedback--

Cindy

Dave Miner wrote:
> Cindy.Swearingen at Sun.COM wrote:
> 
>> Hi William,
>>
>> Thanks for the comments...
>>
>> For the ZFS comments:
>>
>> 1.
>> Good comment about pointing to Tim's blog instead of the script directly.
>>
>> 2. The user account that is created during the OpenSolaris
>> installation has root privileges. For example:
>> admin at opensolaris:~/Desktop$ roles
>> root
>>
>> So, for a student installing the Back to School Kit its probably
>> best to create a personal user account for papers, etc.
>>
> 
> I haven't reviewed the document, but this exchange caught my eye.
> The account can assume the role, but only does so when specifically 
> requested by entering a profiled shell or using pfexec.  There's no 
> extra privilege when you're running in, say, bash or ksh.
> 
> Please do not recommend a second user account, it makes OpenSolaris 
> appear needlessly complex.  At some point we may alter the RBAC 
> privileges created by default to be somewhat less expansive than they 
> are right now, but presently the behavior that results is what is 
> expected for a single-user system, which is that the user can administer 
> his own system.
> 
> Dave