[indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] A few IPS Thoughts/Comments

[Shawn Walker]

[moved to indiana-discuss]

Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Darren J Moffat
>> <darrenm at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>>> Chris Ridd wrote:
>>>> Darren J Moffat wrote:
>>>>> If you personally want to always exec pkg with pfexec then change your
>>>>> shell from ksh -> pfksh, csh -> pfcsh, sh -> pfsh.
>>>> Do you know in which update pfksh is expected to return? (snv_93 only
>>>> has pfcsh and pfsh)
>>> That is an indiana-discuss issues it has nothing to do with pkg and is
>>> an issue that doesn't exist in SX:CE release of snv_93 (or any earlier one).
>>>
>>> This is because ksh in OpenSolaris binary releases is ksh93 not the
>>> ksh88.  The ksh93 source does not have the modifications to be pfksh,
>>> because it wasn't supposed to be /usr/bin/ksh yet!
>> Why not just "su -" to become root and be done with it.
> 
> Because the default OpenSolaris binary release configures root as a role 
> when a user is created during the initial install.  That means (by 
> design) that 'su -' won't work!

Really? "su -" works just fine on my os2008 system.

-- 
Shawn Walker