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:
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?
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I forgot to mention something: when i do
and type my password it says
Last edited by abohmeed; 04-07-2013 at 10:21 AM..
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