[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

[Gary Gendel]

On 5/3/11 9:02 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
> 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.

Not really.  I use pfexec exclusively so I never put myself in the 
sudoer file.  su won't work because root is not a user, it's a role.
> -Albert
>
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