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Operating Systems Solaris New user question regarding admin rights Post 302582444 by jlliagre on Friday 16th of December 2011 01:50:07 AM
Old 12-16-2011
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Originally Posted by stansaraczewski
jthe 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.
It certainly does under the hood. Just run the command behind the icon with sudo.
 

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network-admin(1)					      General Commands Manual						  network-admin(1)

NAME
network-admin - Network Administration Tool SYNOPSIS
network-admin [OPTION...] DESCRIPTION
network-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration. network-admin allows you to specify the way your system connects to other computers and to the Internet. OPTIONS
--display=DISPLAY X display to use network-admin also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options. AUTHORS
network-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others. This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). SEE ALSO
services-admin(1), shares-admin(1), time-admin(1), users-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7) The online documentation available through the program's Help menu. GNOME
2007-05-08 network-admin(1)
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