Restart: PSARC/2008/321 - No Root Login

[Darren J Moffat]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 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?

That isn't how I read it.  I read that it would always be the new way.

> 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).

I think the surprise is fine for a Micro but not patch release.  The 
project team has already said there is no intent to patch this into S10.

-- 
Darren J Moffat