Restart: PSARC/2008/321 - No Root Login

[Garrett D'Amore]

Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Gary Winiger wrote:
>> I'm restarting this Fast Track for Jim Hugnes.
>>
>> It requests a Patch release binding.
>
> I think this is too much surprise for Patch and this is one of the 
> areas where I would distinguish Patch from Micro.  Given there are no 
> Micro releases planned I'd be much more comfortable with this case if 
> it had a release binding of Minor.
>
> The above is all assuming there is no real intent to backport this to 
> a Solaris 10 update (ie patch binding) release anyway.
>
> Technically I'm happy with the case as specified.

Ditto.

If there is a desire to backport to S10, could the new behavior of 
prompting for a username (instead of assuming root) be made conditional 
(e.g. based on some configuration in /etc/?)  I would think if this 
behavior were optional, and not enabled by default, then a Patch binding 
would be non-controversial.  (Note that I think making the behavior 
conditional is only required for Patch releases... for minor/micro 
releases the behavior as specified here seems good to me.)

    -- Garrett