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Operating Systems Solaris Update OpenBoot Prom from CD Post 302890618 by hicksd8 on Thursday 27th of February 2014 02:45:57 PM

02-27-2014

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Yep, that's exactly right. The # prompt reminds you that you are root; whether you logged in as root or su'd up to root.

Other users get the $ prompt.

You can modify your prompt to 'root@<nodename>' which is even better for reminding you what rights you have.

Many administrators spend their time switching between accounts, and/or su'ing to root to do specific tasks.

On most flavors of Unix/Linux the root user by-passes ALL security so one mistake as root can blow up the system whereas other users will get caught by security if the try to do something stupid.

The # reminds you that you are root (ie, god) and anything you say goes; no questions asked; literally!!!!

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If you're a sysadmin with multiple systems on your network setting a prompt of 'root@<nodename>' also reminds you which system you are on as you move about your different systems.

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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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