On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Nigel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> Well, I suppose it means anyone with admin rights would at least be > >> able to have different desktops. *shrug* > >> > >> > > Essentially, Ubuntu uses sudo. So, when a desktop user with admin rights > > wants to do something that requires root access, the user's password is > > requested, not the root password. > > > > There are a lot of reasons you do not want to run as root for normal > > operations. > > I installed OpenSolaris the other day and fully expected to have > sudo. It wasn't there. My Linux-based reaction was - negative. :-) sudo is available on the "Solaris Companion" DVD. Sun has developed RBAC (Role Based Access Control). There's a command called pfexec that will work like sudo mostly. I found I wasn't able to su to root on OpenSolaris 200805-1 because of RBAC either. I had to edit a number of files to change the security to act more like Linux. On a similar note, sudo isn't installed on my Windows system :-)
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