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Operating Systems Solaris How do you make a superuser? Post 303003630 by kkeevv on Sunday 17th of September 2017 06:26:27 PM

09-17-2017

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Well i have only run a few commands, but apparently enough to screw something up. Solaris won't let me in to NETWORK settings now. When I try a lil window pops up asking for a 'user' or 'role'. If I put my username in it disappears but the settings don't come up. If I enter root it ask for a password.

I was looking at 'USER MANAGER' and it has my user listed as 'STAFF'. Not only can I not change the group or permissions for 'STAFF', I can't add a new user. It says I'm not authorized.

I think I'll delete the partition and re-install. Then I take a closer look at "rolemod" and single user boot.

Did re-install but it didn't improve much. I still can't change my user or create new user. I can get to network settings now but it won't klet me make changes. I can log on to the router but when I go to places/network/windows network it says "failed to retrieve share list from server". Looks like I'm going to have to learn 'ipadm' and 'dladm' commnads. Doesn't make since that I can't do this from the console.

Guess I'll start here Solaris 10 (x86/x64) : How to boot into single user mode from the Grub boot loader.

I tried the temp solution because /boot/grub didn't have a menu.lst file. My GBL didn't look like the one in the link. But I did find a line that mentioned multiboot and added a space and "-s" to the end of it and pressed F10. It booted to service maintenance something? and dropped me at a root# prompt. Not knowing what to do I entered "exit" CR. then it requested that I log on to console. I was still blocked from areas in the console.

I guess this is what I need. x86: Customizing the GRUB Configuration - Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris 11.1 Systems

Quote:

The grub.cfg file contains most of the GRUB configuration. An additional, editable file named custom.cfg can be used if you want to add more complex constructs, for example, menu entries or other scripting, to the GRUB configuration. This file does not exist on the system by default. You must create the file, and it must reside in the same location as the grub.cfg and menu.conf files, which is in /pool-name/boot/grub/. GRUB processes the commands and any customizations that are in the custom.cfg file through the following code that is located at the end of the grub.cfg file: "

Code:

if [ -f  $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then source $prefix/custom.cfg; fi

But it doesn't help until I know how to use it. Going to see if I can change my user permissions.

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tcom

TCOM(4) 						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						   TCOM(4)

NAME

     tcom -- multiplexing serial communications interface

SYNOPSIS

     For 4-port TC-400 series boards:

     tcom0 at isa? port 0x100 irq 5
     com2 at tcom? slave ?
     com3 at tcom? slave ?
     com4 at tcom? slave ?
     com5 at tcom? slave ?

     For 8-port TC-800 series boards:

     tcom0 at isa? port 0x100 irq 5
     com2 at tcom? slave ?
     com3 at tcom? slave ?
     com4 at tcom? slave ?
     com5 at tcom? slave ?
     com6 at tcom? slave ?
     com7 at tcom? slave ?
     com8 at tcom? slave ?
     com9 at tcom? slave ?

DESCRIPTION

     The tcom driver provides support for the Byte Runner Technologies TC-400 and TC-800 series boards that multiplex together up to four or eight
     EIA RS-232C (CCITT V.28) communications interfaces.

     Each tcom device is the master device for up to eight com devices.  The kernel configuration specifies these com devices as slave devices of
     the tcom device, as shown in the synopsis.  The slave ID given for each com device determines which bit in the interrupt multiplexing regis-
     ter is tested to find interrupts for that device.	The port specification for the tcom device is used to compute the base addresses for the
     com subdevices and the port for the interrupt multiplexing register.

     Not all possible configuration options are currently supported (for example, speeds beyond 115200 baud are not currently supported).

FILES

     /dev/tty??

SEE ALSO

     com(4)

HISTORY

     The tcom driver was written by Jukka Marin.

BSD
								   May 20, 1998 							       BSD