again, just for the sake of clarity, you are talking about "5.0 MP1", 
as opposed to "5.1" - see my 3/25 email to this thread.

and certainly among the changes in 5.0 MP1 is the formal introduction 
of the Access Control feature, aka "privilege separation".

HTH
rob



At 10:07 PM +0100 5/26/04, mark wrote:
>5.1 will be out next month to include VxSS to allow creation of the role
>based access control. There are some other features which you might notice
>in the documentation that didn't make it into 5.0GA. Also includes some bug
>fixes, but strangely enough there aren't too many bugs so far.
>
>Have seen the GUI bomb out at various points, and also have seen it do full
>system backup x number of drives on server, as opposed to incremental of
>each drive...so some strange behaviour, but nothing major.
>
>I've been running 5.0GA across 6 sites, looks ok, upgrade from 4.5fp6 was
>seamless.
>
>Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of W. T. Smith
>Sent: 26 March 2004 20:14
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1?
>
>
>There was no service pack (MP1) for 5.0 this morning at the Veritas
>support site.  There *is* a "special pack", which is a fix to vmd
>corrupting the volume DB. It has been out a few weeks.
>
>cheers, wayne
>
>Ed Wilts wrote:
>>  On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:50:02AM -0600, Daryl Katauskas wrote:
>>>I've been hearing vague rumblings about the release of NBU v5.1 sometime
>>>during the month of April.  Does anyone on the list have any more
>>>concrete info on when v5.1 is to be released?
>>
>>  I think people were referring to the first service pack.  That's already
>>  out, and you can download it from the FTP site.
>
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