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Operating Systems Solaris New user question regarding admin rights Post 302582413 by stansaraczewski on Thursday 15th of December 2011 10:15:56 PM

12-15-2011

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Methyl: this is a desktop unit that I am the builder and sole user of. I am the administrator in training. It has a Gigabyte board running 16gb with a hex core AMD processor. Triple boot using three drives (Ubuntu/OpenSUSE and Solaris once I get GRUB chainloading working).

jilliagre: the problem is that I need to click on a setup icon to install OpenOffice so I tried to log out of the desktop then log back in but ROOT was not permitted to log in. I need to assign admin rights to my userid.

The OpenOffice install does not use the command line approach.

What I am aware of now is the incredible learning curve with Unix as opposed to Linux where there seemed to be a gui to do most anything.

Thank you very much for your patience - and I promise to search for answers thoroughly before asking here.

Last edited by stansaraczewski; 12-15-2011 at 11:27 PM.. Reason: rewording.

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