Restart: PSARC/2008/321 - No Root Login

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:09:46AM -0700, Gary Winiger wrote:
> Proposal:
> ========
> Add a "solaris.system.maintenance" authorization.  Modify sulogin(1M) to
> prompt for a username and password.  [...]

But only if root is a no login account, right?

Otherwise this could create problems (first, there's the surprise
factor, second people have expect scripted around sulogin's existing
prompt -- even if the prompt is not an interface, it's been stable for a
long time).

Nico
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