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Operating Systems Solaris Gaining root privileges Post 302790915 by abohmeed on Sunday 7th of April 2013 09:22:24 AM
Old 04-07-2013
Gaining root privileges

Hello
I am a new (and only) administrator of a Solaris 10 environment. The previous admin gave me a use (say user123) that is supposed to have administrative privileges.
Now the problem is, the user does not have this privilege! Here is what i tried so far:
Code:
$ id
uid=109(user123) gid=1(other)
$ roles
admrole
$ cat /etc/user_attr
admrole::::type=role;profiles=Primary Administrator,Cron Management,All
user123::::type=normal;roles=admrole
root::::auths=solaris.*,solaris.grant;profiles=Web Console Management,All;lock_after_retries=no;min_label=admin_low;clearance=admin_high
$ pfexec id -a
uid=109(user123) gid=1(other) groups=(other)

Am i missing something? i am relatively new to Solaris so what is supposed to be done? and do i really have root priv as i've been told?

---------- Post updated at 08:22 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:19 AM ----------

I forgot to mention something: when i do
Code:
su - admrole

and type my password it says
Code:
su: Sorry


Last edited by abohmeed; 04-07-2013 at 10:21 AM.. Reason: Addition
 

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