[OpenIndiana-discuss] Work desktop now running OpenIndiana.

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Oct 29 14:24:34 UTC 2010


Michael wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 14:27, Andrew Watkins <awatkins1966 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> - Default user not a Primary Administrator
> 
> I think that was recently changed, don't know exact rationale
> (security?) nor how to attain root privs that way, though.

Yes, for better security - you now use su or sudo to get root privs, using
a password, instead of allowing passwordless increasing of privileges.

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