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Operating Systems Solaris Help with who am i . Not displaying real user Post 302506047 by wisdom on Friday 18th of March 2011 10:39:30 AM
Old 03-18-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
Then please define better what output you expect depending on the various cases.
This is quite weak, especially if more than one user is logged in.
Very true.....
The required output is to display the real username, instead of displaying root as the user.
who am seems to work ok on my sol 10 servers, but on this sol 8, it's not. It keeps displaying that the real user is root.

Note I su to root on the server as opposed to login in as root. So it should really display my login name.
 

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dsenableroot

dsenableroot(8) 					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					   dsenableroot(8)

NAME

     dsenableroot -- enables or disables the root account.

SYNOPSIS

     dsenableroot [-d] [-u username] [-p password] [-r rootPassword]

DESCRIPTION

     dsenableroot sets the password for the root account if enabling the root user account.  Otherwise, if disable [-d] is chosen, the root
     account passwords are removed and the root user is disabled.

     A list of flags and their descriptions:

     -u username
	      Username of a user that has administrative privileges on this computer.

     -p password
	      Password to use in conjunction with the specified username.  If this is not specified, you will be prompted for entry.

     -r rootPassword
	      Password to be used for the root account.  If this is not specified for enabling, you will be prompted for entry.

EXAMPLES

     -dsenableroot
	      Your username will be used and you will be queried for both your password and the new root password to be set to enable the root
	      account.

     -dsenableroot -d
	      Your username will be used and you will be queried for only your password to disable the root account.

     -dsenableroot -u username -p userpassword -r rootpassword
	      The supplied arguments will be used to enable the root account.

     -dsenableroot -d -u username -p userpassword
	      The supplied arguments will be used to disable the root account.

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