I finally made it through the strategy review. It's really good stuff. A couple of points regarding the mock-up:
- A button to skip the creation of a new user should exist. If you choose to skip, it should pop up with a warning dialog, but it should allow you to skip. This is for users that will add the client to NIS or some other directory services solution. This is how most of the Linux distros work today. - There was discussion about 'supported hardware' via the 'try' option. A slightly different view would be to have a hardware browser as an option. That would allow you to see immediately what Solaris has found and what it might not have found. - A dialog to ask for directory information (ldap, nis, etc.) would be useful. - DHCP has the ability to set the NTP server automatically. It would be good to present that in the NTP/time dialog. In the doc, one thing that I didn't agree with: Protection of the root password via remote install/boot. (e.g. making it so a user can't reset the password via a boot CD) I don't think this should be attempted, as it will only cause problems. In security, if you have physical access to the box, software security is irrelevant. ----- Gregory Shaw, IT Architect Phone: (303) 673-8273 Fax: (303) 673-2773 ITCTO Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. 1 StorageTek Drive ULVL4-382 greg.shaw at sun.com (work) Louisville, CO 80028-4382 shaw at fmsoft.com (home) "When Microsoft writes an application for Linux, I've Won." - Linus Torvalds
