On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Kaya Saman <SamanKaya at netscape.net> wrote: > Abhishek Mishra wrote: >> >> $ pfexec passwd root >> works. I usually do >> $ sudo passwd on Ubuntu. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> belenix-discuss mailing list >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss >> http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >> > > :-) > > Linux has sudo, Solaris has pfexec --however from what Sriram and Moinak say > pfexec is far more secure then sudo so in Solaris use pfexec in Linux > disable sudo!! > > Or alternatively in Linux don't use Ubuntu..... it does however make a nice > desktop distro. Just can't stand the GUI apps on it, mind you I don't like > RH GUI apps either that appear on CentOS and Fedora. I think that's one of > the really strong points of Solaris that there aren't any GUI apps at least > for 10... OSOL and other OSOL based distros a bit different but at heart > they are all the same. >
Different approaches, but the sudo maintainer was willing to add RBAC support on Solaris, but he was looking for someone to work with. I don't know what happened of that project. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
