On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:02:54PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:09:46AM -0700, Gary Winiger wrote: > >>Proposal: > >>======== > >>Add a "solaris.system.maintenance" authorization. Modify sulogin(1M) to > >>prompt for a username and password. [...] > > > >But only if root is a no login account, right? > > That isn't how I read it. I read that it would always be the new way.
The word "always" would have helped. > >Otherwise this could create problems (first, there's the surprise > >factor, second people have expect scripted around sulogin's existing > >prompt -- even if the prompt is not an interface, it's been stable for a > >long time). > > I think the surprise is fine for a Micro but not patch release. The > project team has already said there is no intent to patch this into S10. Right, I agree with that. Nico --
