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Operating Systems Solaris How do you make a superuser? Post 303003470 by kkeevv on Thursday 14th of September 2017 07:41:03 AM

09-14-2017

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How do you make a superuser?

I have just installed Solaris 11. When I turn the computer on I don't want to see a login in screen. I want to automatically be logged in as "SUPERUSER".

My research tells me someone is going to tell me that's not wise or safe. I'm not interested in security advice. If someone I know is smart enough to defeat my bios password they are more than welcome to do whatever they want to the system. And If I or someone else screw the system up, how bad could it be? Worse case, I wipe the HDD and re-install.

I want "SU" in the GUI so I can copy/past files to any director I choose. I am new to Linux and don't have a good understanding of all the terminal commands. I'm having to research the the simplest tasks, ie "mv", "ls"... At this point I don't even know if I can use wild cards with Linux commands. I need a white board on the wall so I have all the commands in front of me.

My issue is the same as one I posted in the Ubuntu thread. I want to get wifi configured on a PC that has no connection to the Internet. All my searches lead to the same answer. They all give commands to type in the terminal that require internet access. ie "user$ git http//.something..."

I have manually downloaded the driver for my wifi device to a USB drive and migrated it to the desktop of the target PC. I followed instruction to "make all" "install all" and failed. The readme file said something about "DKMS", so I downloaded that and unpacked on the desk top. Looking the files over I determined what directories these files go in. A few belong in /etc. The file manager won't let me past to this directory.

Using the terminal in the dir where these files are located I tried ~$ "sudo mv filename /etc/filename". After putting in PW it said directory not found. Then, after typing enough keystrokes to write a short story, and using 'sudo' I managed to move one file into the /etc directory. And now I have forgotten how I did it. It's like re-inventing the wheel again and again. It would be much easier if I could cut and paste.

I have no choice but to learn Linux. I salvaged these PC's from the waste collection center and can't afford to put Win OS's on them. I plan on becoming a Linux expert in time. I taught and consider myself a expert dos user. But it didn't happen over night. So if you can help me with this you 'll be my best friend Smilie

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lpt

LPT(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    LPT(4)

NAME

     lpt -- generic printer device driver

SYNOPSIS

     device ppc
     device ppbus
     device lpt

DESCRIPTION

     The current lpt driver is the port of the original lpt driver to the ppbus(4) system.

     One purpose of this port was to allow parallel port sharing with other parallel devices.  Secondly, inb()/outb() calls have been replaced by
     ppbus function calls.  lpt is now arch-independent thanks to the ppbus interface.	See ppbus(4) for more info about the ppbus system.

     The parallel port bus is allocated by lpt when the printer device is opened and released only when the transfer is completed: either when the
     device is closed or when the entire buffer is sent in interrupt driven mode.

     The driver can be configured to be either interrupt-driven, or to poll the printer.  Ports that are configured to be interrupt-driven can be
     switched to polled mode by using the lptcontrol(8) command.

     Depending on your hardware, extended capabilities may be configured with the lptcontrol(8) command.  With an ECP/ISA port, you can take
     advantage of FIFO and DMA.

     In order to retrieve printer info from /dev/lpt0, just apply the cat command to the device.  If the printer supports IEEE1284 nibble mode and
     has data to send to the host, you will get it.

FILES

     /dev/lpt0			       first parallel port driver

SEE ALSO

     ppbus(4), ppc(4), lptcontrol(8)

HISTORY

     This driver replaces the functionality of the lpa driver, which is now defunct.

BUGS

     There are lots of them, especially in cheap parallel port implementations.

     It is only possible to open a lpt port when a printer is connected and on-line, making it impossible to run lptcontrol(8) when there is no
     printer connected.

     This driver could still stand a rewrite.

BSD
								 February 14, 1999							       BSD

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