Jan,

I just have a question on 11.2 - If for whatever reason, SMF
had to present sulogin on boot before this config service
came online to configure the root account etc, what is the
behavior?  Is it possible to log in on the console as root
without a password in that case?


thanks,
-ethan


On 03/25/10 05:13, Jan Damborsky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> thank you very much for providing useful comments
> during process of reviewing SC SMF design spec.
>
> I have incorporated all suggestions and updated the
> design document accordingly [1].
>
> Old version is available for reference [2].
>
> Please feel free to take a look and speak up in case
> I missed any comments or misunderstood anything.
>
> Jan
>
>
> Summary of changes:
> * user account
>   - configuring multiple user accounts added as a potential 
> enhancement (10.2.1)
>   - captured possibility to manipulate shadow(4) by means of standard API
>     once fix for 1265957 is delivered (9.1, 10.1)
>   - clarifying that it will be possible not to create user account at 
> all (5.1)
>   - home directory ZFS dataset and mountpoint configurable (5.1) -
>     automatically generated in default scenario (10.3)
>
> * root account
>   - added 'expire' property (5.2)
>     - not expired in default scenario (10.3)
>
> * corrected SMF manifest path taking into account EMI changes (12)
>
> * changed service dependency from svc:/system/filesystem/minimal
>   to svc:/system/filesystem/root (13)
>
> * security
>   - property groups protected by read_authorization (11.1)
>   - removed 'Primary Administrator' profile from default SC manifest 
> (10.3, 13.2)
>   - potential changes to user/role/group/add/mod/del coming from 
> PSARC/2009/652
>     mentioned in the document (9.2)
>   - enhanced scope of 'expire' property - if set to '0', 'passwd -f' 
> will be
>     called to force the user to change password at the next login by 
> expiring
>     the password (5)
>
> References:
> [1] 
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Project+caiman/System+Configuration+Project/scsmfdesignv0.1.pdf
>  
>
> [2] 
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Project+caiman/System+Configuration+Project/scsmfdesignv0.1%2Dold.pdf
>  
>
>
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