[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

[Albert Lee]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jamon Camisso <jamonation at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/3/2011 7:21 PM, Gary Gendel wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr.  Now I
>> can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges (software
>> manager, etc.).  The laptop is running the dev_il repository.  How the
>> heck to I recover from this?  The only LiveCD I know of uses an earlier
>> version of zfs.
>
> Boot with "-m milestone=none" as an argument on your kernel line in
> grub. That will get you to a console you can use to recover things.
>
> Jamon
>

You should still be able to use sudo, or su if you know the root password.

-Albert