[pca] Request for Enhancement

[Martin Paul]

Brian,

> However in the pca code there is a line that checks your id and asks
> if it is '0'. If not pca exits and says you must be root. However
> since we are running as sudo we are effectively root, but do not have
> roots UID.

Good point. With sudo and RBAC it's not a safe assumption that UID==0 is 
a requirement to install patches with "patchadd".

> The RFE is: have a command line option called --uid <a valid uid>
> that we can use that will check if you are uid of 0 OR if you are UID
> of <a valid uid>

I chose a different approach: There is a new option "--norootchk" which 
simply skips the UID check when --install (or --safe) is used. If you 
really want to check for a specific UID, this is better done in your 
wrapper script.

The new option is already available in the current development version 
of pca, which you can get from:

   http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/installation.html

Thanks for the feedback,

Martin.