Darren, Point taken, however this case is only focusing on the installer UI changes. It does not deal in anyway with the assignment of roles etc.
With this regard I believe this case to be complete. regards Matt On 02/25/10 05:21 PM, Darren J Moffat wrote: > On 25/02/2010 17:00, John Fischer wrote: >> All, >> >> I am sponsoring this case for Matt Keenan of the installer team. >> The case directory contains this proposal. I have set the timer >> for next Thursday, March 4th, 2010. >> >> This project updates the Dwarf Caiman, New Solairs Install GUI >> (PSARC/2007/284), to remove the requirement of providing a root >> password. Given that the user / password has primary administrator >> role, this password is not needed. The Dwarf GUI interface remains >> Uncommitted. > > I'm happy with the changes listed, but I don't feel the project is > complete. I would like the case to go slightly further and NOT assign > "Primary Administrator" to the default user. It should not be needed and > doing so causes problems. > > The fact that the initial user is given the root role and will have the > "Console User" profile when logged in on the console should be > sufficient. That profile currently includes the following: > > Suspend To RAM,Suspend To Disk,Brightness, > CPU Power Management,Network Autoconf,Network Wifi Info, > Desktop Removable Media User, > Desktop Print Management; > auths=solaris.system.shutdown > > Those combined with the fact that programs such as the GUI packagemanger > (and others) are executed already via gksu means the user will be > prompted for a password (which is actually the root role's password but > due to this case it won't mater initially). This gives a very similar > behaviour to Ubuntu and to MacOS X. > > The setting of the initial root password to match that of initial user > password is really a workaround for the fact that Solaris roles > currently require a role password rather than using the assuming users > password. That issue is covered by 6419553 (and possibly others I can't > currently find among the 250+ hits I got) - one of the main barriers to > changing that was NIS+ which has now been removed. > >
