[OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 05/23/11 07:58 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:26 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> 
>> Perchance did you read the thread referenced??
>>
>> <https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4885>
>>
>>
> 
> I have. I am just saying that Ubuntu is NOT representative of Linux admins and
> that going sudo is because of Dave Miner's affection for Ubuntu users and not
> because of anything Linux.

I doubt any personal feelings you're imagining from Dave Miner had anything to
do with the direction Sun management established well before that change was
made.   It's rather ironic to see people on the OpenIndiana mailing list
complaining so bitterly about the direction that Project Indiana set forth.

Ubuntu is also far from the only Linux distro using sudo, and we had many
Solaris customers requesting sudo as well.   RBAC is not replaced by sudo,
and is still fully in place for those situations where it's more appropriate
(such as granting certain roles enhanced privileges for specific commands,
 instead of a blanket "Run everything you want as root, including things you
 don't intend to" that Primary Administrator gave).

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System