[OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[Richard L. Hamilton]

On May 23, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:51 AM, Gary wrote:
>> 
>> I must have missed that part of the thread but sudo predates Linux by at
>> least ten years; http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/history.html
>> 
> 
> It's the same old Solaris admin versus Linux admin thingy. Any shortcomings/non-existing feature in Solaris are ignored/brushed off and anything remotely 'Linux' related gets put on the grill immediately.
> 
> I can understand wanting to keep the same interfaces but making rabid attacks on stuff that are additional just because they are the current Linux practice is really irrational. Hence stuff like sudo is a Linux thing...

Nothing wrong with sudo, or even with having both RBAC and sudo.

Something wrong with changing Solaris to look more like Linux when
there's no good reason except familiarity for Linux users, since
it _breaks_ familiarity for Solaris users.  I don't think it's unreasonable that might upset people, although this case is not a great example of one worth picking a fight over, IMO.

OTOH, either finding a better way to use RBAC for this particular purpose, or using sudo instead, is probably an improvement on how RBAC was previously being used for this.