Restart: PSARC/2008/321 - No Root Login

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:02:54PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> 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.

The word "always" would have helped.

> >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.

Right, I agree with that.

Nico
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