Peter Tribble wrote: > Hi, > >> I am proposing a new project to modify the Solaris packaging and patching >> utilities (pkgadd, patchadd, etc) to enable them to be used by ordinary >> users with no special privileges. A summary of the project is below. >> I'd like some feedback from the community on this project. The technical >> stuff is admittedly high-level but I think you will get the general idea. > > As I see it, allowing users to use pkg*/patch* can take 3 forms: > > 1. Non-root users can manipulate the system packages. (Can be done > today with privileges, supposedly. Didn't for me when I tried it.)
Exactly what did you try ? The way to do this is give the user the "Software Installation" RBAC profile eg: # usermod -P"Software Installation" petert petert$ pfexec pkgadd -d CSWfoo.pkg Is that what you tried ? If so how did it fail ? -- Darren J Moffat
