Solaris isn't Linux

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:36 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Nigel Stewart <nigels at nigels.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         >>   Well, I suppose it means anyone with admin rights would
>         at least be
>         >> able to have different desktops. *shrug*
>         >>
>         >>
>         > Essentially, Ubuntu uses sudo. So, when a desktop user with
>         admin rights
>         > wants to do something that requires root access, the user's
>         password is
>         > requested, not the root password.
>         >
>         > There are a lot of reasons you do not want to run as root
>         for normal
>         > operations.
>         
>         
>                I installed OpenSolaris the other day and fully
>         expected to have
>                sudo.  It wasn't there.  My Linux-based reaction was -
>         negative. :-)
> 
> sudo is available on the "Solaris Companion" DVD.
> 
> Sun has developed RBAC (Role Based Access Control).  There's a command
> called pfexec that will work like sudo mostly.
> 
> I found I wasn't able to su to root on OpenSolaris 200805-1 because of
> RBAC either.  I had to edit a number of files to change the security
> to act more like Linux.
> 
> On a similar note, sudo isn't installed on my Windows system :-)

Note that Linux (for some value thereof) is also moving in an RBAC
direction, under the guise of PolicyKit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolicyKit


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Jarod Wilson
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