[OpenIndiana-discuss] root pw on fresh install?

[Andrew Kinney]

I answered my own question.

Go to System -> Administration -> Users and Groups, input the root pw 
as prompted, select your username that you setup during installation, 
click properties, click the User profiles tab, scroll down to 
"Primary Administrator", and tick the box. Click OK. Click OK again. 
Now pfexec behaves as expected.

Hopefully someone finds this information useful.

Should this be set during the install process or are these extra 
steps the intended procedure?

Andrew

On 15 Sep 2010 at 21:45, Andrew Kinney wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Thank you! That took care of the problem with Update/Package Manager.
> 
> I think a note either on first login or during setup to the effect 
> that the root password just set has expired might alleviate some 
> confusion. I can see how some might feel expiring the root password 
> at installation time might be a security feature, but I *just* set it 
> and it seems to go against common sense for it to be expired already. 
> Because it is expired, it also means that you have to set it to a 
> *different* password the second time and then run "passwd root", just 
> so you can set it back.
> 
> It doesn't seem to have had any impact on the expected behaviour of 
> "pfexec bash", though. Am I the only one that does this? Is the 
> initial user missing a flag somewhere to allow pfexec usage? I can 
> always "su" if I have to, but I prefer the "pfexec" way of doing 
> things since I became familiar with it on OpenSolaris.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 16 Sep 2010 at 6:17, zero mind wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > seems the root password is initially set to the one supplied during
> > installation. In addition to that it's set to expired. Just do a su in
> > a terminal and provide the password you set, it will report that the
> > password has expired and prompt for a new one.
> > After that it should accept the root password and launch the Package Manager.
> > That behaviour seems intended, though I don't recall a note regarding
> > that on the password request screen during the installation progress.
> > 
> > Nico Jehle
> > 
> > On 16 September 2010 05:43, Andrew Kinney <andykinney at advantagecom.net> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have what is either a bug or a PEBKAC.
> > >
> > > I did a fresh install of OI b147 on a VirtualBox instance (x86-64).
> > >
> > > Now, I'm booting from the virtual hard drive (the install ISO is
> > > unmounted).
> > >
> > > I login as usual and go to System -> Adminstration -> Package Manager
> > > (or Update Manager). It prompts for the root password. I enter the
> > > only password I recall supplying to the system during installation.
> > > With no error or feedback of any kind, I get dumped back to the
> > > desktop.
> > >
> > > Another oddity is that on OpenSolaris b134 I'm used to running
> > > "pfexec bash" from a command line and the prompt changes to #
> > > (instead of $), but that doesn't seem to work in OI b147.
> > > Effectively, it's similar to "su" in the linux world. Again, with no
> > > feedback of any kind, it just goes back to the same command prompt.
> > >
> > > Is anyone else having these issues on a fresh install?
> > >
> > > If this is a PEBKAC, let me know. If not, I'll go file a bug report.
> > >
> 
> 
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