[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

[Chris Bünger]

I think your User has to have the profile "Primary Administrator" in
/etc/user_attr.

Cheers
  Chris

Am 27.11.2011 um 11:24 schrieb Matt Connolly <matt.connolly.au at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just set up a new oi151 workstation, but am having a problem using the root role from any of the gui panels. (System -> Administration -> Services, or nwam-manager-properties from top task bar).
>
> When using the "lock" icon in the SMF Services panel, for example, it asks me to select a user, and then to select a role, which I select "root", and then that the role must be authenticated but it does not accept my password.
>
> I can "sudo" with no problems, though.
>
> And here's an interesting thing, I added a password to the root user with "sudo passwd root" that is different to my user password. I figure this should have no affect since root is a role not a user, right?
>
> Now, in the services panel, I can select "matt" as the user, then "root" as the role and then authenticate using the root password (not my user password).
>
> Is this how it is supposed to work? To access the root role, you need to use the root password, not your user password?
>
> And if so, why did the installer ask for a root password but not configure it correctly? (I could only access these panels after doing `sudo passwd root`)
>
>
>
> Matt.
>
>
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