Restart: PSARC/2008/321 - No Root Login

[Scott Rotondo]

Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Scott Rotondo wrote:
>> On the other hand, I really do think this could be considered a detail 
>> of the implementation. Under my proposal, sulogin will still prompt 
>> for a username and password. Even if the spec is silent on the issue, 
>> the implementation has to have *some* deterministic behavior when the 
>> username is a null string; I'm just suggesting what that behavior 
>> should be.
> 
> But that behaviour should be documented otherwise we are free to change 
> it and that means people can't depend on it (but probably would anyway). 
>   If they can't depend on it why bother with it implying root rather 
> than just giving an error message and asking for the username again.
> 
> This might seem like nits but it is stuff like this that customers 
> actually notice and get annoyed about when we change it.   I know this 
> from the praise and flak we got for changing the exact dialog that 
> passwd(1) output (and passwd wasn't actually changed but PAM modules).
> 

Fair enough. Including it in the spec is certainly fine with me.

	Scott