Hi Keith, > 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 ;>
as for the usability lab -- this seems to be a good idea. I am cc'ing Jiri Mzourek from xDesign team. Jiri runs a usability lab at the site in Prague + there is also one at Czech Technical University in Prague. Regards, Lukas Keith Bierman wrote: > 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. > > 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 H. Bierman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Strategic Engagement Team | AIM: kbiermank > <speaking for myself, not Sun*> Copyright 2007 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
