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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris root password Post 302117039 by Perderabo on Thursday 10th of May 2007 08:20:13 AM
Old 05-10-2007
If sshd is running as a daemon you would need to restart it after editing the config file.
 

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XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner(3XTSOL)		 Trusted Extensions to X Windows Library Functions		  XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner(3XTSOL)

NAME
XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner - set the ownership of the workstation SYNOPSIS
cc [flag...] file... -lX11 -lXtsol [library...] #include <X11/extensions/Xtsol.h> Status XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner(display, uidp); Display *display; uid_t *uidp; XTSOLClientAttributes *clientattrp; PARAMETERS
display Specifies a pointer to the Display structure; returned from XOpenDisplay(). uidp Specifies a pointer to a uid_t structure that contains a UID. DESCRIPTION
The XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner() function is used by the Solaris Trusted Extensions logintool to assign a user ID to be identified as the owner of the workstation server. The client running under this user ID can set the server's device objects, such as keyboard mapping, mouse mapping, and modifier mapping. The client must have the Trusted Path process attribute. RETURN VALUES
None. ERRORS
BadAccess Lack of privilege. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------------------+-------------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------------------+-------------------------------+ |Interface Stability | Committed | +---------------------------+-------------------------------+ |MT-Level | Unsafe | +---------------------------+-------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
libXtsol(3LIB), XTSOLgetWorkstationOwner(3XTSOL), attributes(5) Accessing and Setting a Workstation Owner ID in Solaris Trusted Extensions Developer's Guide NOTES
The functionality described on this manual page is available only if the system is configured with Trusted Extensions. SunOS 5.11 20 Jul 2007 XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner(3XTSOL)
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