[OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:15 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I was being sarcastic about Ken's seeming assumption that Dave 
decided on sudo for OSOL and lost his intelligence in the process.

>
> 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).
>

Well, yeah, all the other 'sudo for admin model' using distros are 
probably Ubuntu derived...