2008/326 [SAM-QFS SMF Management of sam-fsd]

[Dean Roehrich]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:54:35AM -0700, Glenn Skinner wrote:
>     Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 12:47:45 -0500
>     From: Dean Roehrich <Dean.Roehrich at sun.com>
>     Subject: Re: SAM-QFS SMF Management of sam-fsd [PSARC/2008/326
> 	    FastTrack timeout 05/22/2008]
> 
>     On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:47:08PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> 
>     > Please check if the daemon actually needs to run with uid==0 and 
>     > privs=all by reviewing http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0206/819-5507.pdf
> 
>     I spent some time with this today.  It's not clear to me that I'm
>     exercising all parts of just this daemon, and I'm concerned about
>     the other SAM-QFS daemons spawned by this one and the number of
>     different team members who have to be involved to ensure we cover
>     all paths.  If it is necessary to muzzle SAM-QFS daemons then I'd
>     prefer that we address this in a different case.
> 
>     So, yes, we'd prefer to run as uid==0 and privs=all.
> 
> It seems to me that this concern would best be handled by filing a bug
> report (if necessary, and then fixing the bug).

That approach sounds good to me.  I'll open an RFE against the product.

Dean