[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome desktop system commands don't work?

[Dan Swartzendruber]

On 11/13/2012 3:25 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Dan Swartzendruber<dswartz at druber.com>  wrote:
>    
>>      
>>> I think there were reports of GNOME GUI root-password prompts ignoring
>>> the password defined during OS installation (from Live Media), either
>>> if the pass includes certain characters, or always.
>>>
>>> Redefining the root password (even to the same text) after booting into
>>> the installed OS solved the issue for those posters. May have to do with
>>> PAM integrations taking place (as is the known case with CIFS-compatible
>>> passwords) or something like that...
>>>        
>>
>> BINGO!  Thank you Jim!  I did 'passwd root' and changed to current one, but
>> that apparently doesn't help my existing gdm session.  Since I am not yet
>> running the 2-3 VMs headless, I'm afraid to disconnect the session lest I
>> hose them.  I'll do that tonight when everyone is off...
>>      
> If it's the known password bug, then it's because the root password
> is initially expired. Fixing it should be effective immediately. However,
> what you would normally have got in that case is it prompting for the
> root password and refusing to accept it.
>
> Another possibility is to run 'users-admin' from a terminal window
> and see if it generates anything useful in terms of output. (It's likely
> to generate some meaningless chatter anyway.)
>    
Dunno, but before, any such command got no graphical output.  After I 
refreshed the root password and fired up a new VNC session, I *do* get 
the password prompt.  I'm guessing there might have been a 'bad 
password' rejection but it doesn't make it to the screen?