Thank you for the verbose refresher.

On 3/28/10 12:04 AM, Danek Duvall wrote:
> Now, none of that precludes scripting itself, just the point at which it's
> run.  What we've done is moved that to a time when the system is fully
> assembled, and booted.  If you're installing a package on a live system,
> then it's ready to go after the packaged bits are down.  If you're
> installing a package onto a system which isn't live (mounted somewhere
> else, possibly in pieces, or in some brand new context you couldn't
> possibly have imagined a year or two ago), then the script will be run at
> the time the system boots.
>   

Can you elaborate on this?  How specifically is this accomplished?  It
sounds as though your refering to either inserting an rc script or your
referring to an SMF method.

> Users and groups (and drivers) are handled directly by the packaging
> system; the first two are needed simply to create filesystem objects, and
> the latter are needed for booting.  There may be other things that require
> the filesystem to be updated before SMF is up and running, but so far we
> haven't gotten many (if any) requests for such things.
>   

In the case of users and groups; is this to say that if the user and
group of a file doesn't exist its created?  How would one create users
with special properties, such as a pre-defined password, RBAC profiles, etc?


benr.

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