2007/8/9, Keith Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> On Aug 8, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Keith Bierman wrote:
>
> >
> > On Aug 8, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Keith -- I for one would love it if you could enlarge on this a bit.
> >> (Even though I know what all the individual functions and
> >> technologies
> >> are in paragraph above, I'm still having a hard time wrapping my
> >> brain
> >> around the overall mechanism/environment you're describing -- and I'm
> >> guessing I'm not the only one...)
> >>
> >
> > Well, I can't sketch out the answer, because I don't actually get the
> > RBAC stuff myself enough (it's on my list of things to work on
> >
>
> It was always easier than I thought, as I've just verified this in
> several builds.
>
> Make the default user (viz. the entity created during the Developer
> install) have primary administrator profile rather than ordinary
> user. Have the skeleton profile (eliding the discussion of what the
> default shell is, or hack it for any of the supported shell
> skeletons) to have the equivalent of
> alias sudo="pfexec"
>
> and now sudo $script
>
> does what the "normal" linux user expects.
>
> Doesn't come with additional baggage. No doubt there are edge cases
> where real sudo would have worked and pfexec won't, but there's a lot
> that just works out of the box this way.


Would '$ sudo cat /path/to/somefile > /path/to/otherfile' work in case the
user itself has no rights to otherfile with that solution?

I find it quite annoying when I try to do something like that and I need to
end up doing sudo su.

Similarly for top and prstat :>
>
> Perhaps we could lure some Linux users of various skillsets into a
> usability lab, and record their usage. Providing mappings (even if
> the results are a little different, like prstat) would be an
> interesting first step towards meeting them halfway ;>


Keith, it's the first sane suggestion I have seen on this discussion since
it started. ++1

Maybe we can clone betterdesktop.org and create a bettersolaris.org site :)

Keith H. Bierman    [EMAIL PROTECTED]   |  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz
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