Article: 164299 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: Simon Burr Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: Solaris 8? Date: 27 Jan 2000 17:30:11 -0000 Organization: BPFH - Bastard Programmers From Hell Lines: 22 Approved: moo@bar Message-ID: <86pvb3$588$1@triad.bpfh.net> References: <388f0686$0$2950@news.execpc.com> <86prl6$kd6$1@dmapub.dma.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: triad.bpfh.net X-no-archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Path: news1.meer.net!news3.best.com!news2.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warm.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.bpfh.net!not-for-mail Xref: news1.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:164299 In <86prl6$kd6$1@dmapub.dma.org> pedwards@dmapub.dma.org (Phil Edwards) writes: >stepped up the release cycle, there won't be /that/ many differences >between 7 and 8. IPv6, IPsec, and "Role Based Access Control" (which >sounds like a builtin sudo) There are also things like Perl 5.005_03, LDAP (via nsswitch.conf), sendmail 8.9.3, UDF file system (ie DVD support), /dev/poll for faster I/O polling, PDA syncing, X11R6.4, apache, etc. The role based access stuff is similar to sudo in its ideas... but allows you to control down to the syscall level AFAIR. From what the droids where saying you could give root-level access for a given user in any one of 1800+ areas. The role based stuff is configured so that the system behaves as you would expect it when its first installed; you have to go and configure the roles yourself. They are also making the source and binaries available from www.sun.com as well. Binaries on the 6th March and the source 60 days after that. -- Simon the stressed http://www.bpfh.net/ simes@bpfh.net New from Acme: Dehydrated BOFH. Just add blood and stand well back