Section 4.11 Security Impact

The interaction between "Primary Administrator" and "Console User" RBAC 
profiles is unfortunate.  This basically says to me that this doesn't 
actually work in a useful way given how OpenSolaris system initial user 
having having "Primary Administrator".   In my opinion that is a bad 
config but it wasn't one the ARC was asked to review nor it it for this 
case to fix (I believe the issue is being discussed elsewhere though). 
IIRC it was done before "Console User" existed.

However the particular problem it causes 6749728 seems to be in scope 
for this case to resolve though and I think to approve this architecture 
it needs to be solved, or this case needs to be dependent on a case (or 
some other commitment) that we stop assigning "Primary Administrator" to 
the default user account.   The workaround of modifying the "Primary 
Administrator" profile isn't acceptable and will actually cause 
different problems.

Please do not document the advice that the "Desktop CD User" be modified 
by an end system admin.  Instead document that they should create their 
own profile and assign that to users instead.  The reasons for this is 
that we do not have a good upgrade story for what happens when the 
system admin modifies profiles we deliver - it is made worse by the 
current lack of any upgrade of these in OpenSolaris IPS based systems - 
and is further complicated by the fact that the entries could be in a 
remote nameservice.

On the naming the "Desktop CD User" profile name should probably be 
CD/DVD/BlueRay which makes me thing it really should be "Desktop 
Removable Media User"


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Darren J Moffat

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