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Thanks for your response raju. Well i do not have the file hosts.equiv or .rhost in my /etc directory. All the other areas were already uncommented. It's funny, if my root password was solaris2000, i...

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I am having an odd occurence. When i do a su in a terminal or console session, I am able get authenticated as superuser without using the full or correct root password. Anyone...

Thanks to you all. Great information. One last question, when I do su, where is the superusers profile read from?

-AJ

I know of this file and what it does, but I do not think it answers the question that I posted, fully. There is a lot more info offered by the "set" command other than the default generated profile...

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I need some help to understand system and user environment files, such as .profile and others. I can edit my .profile file in my home directory. What I only touch in this file is the...

Yes, i do...Am I suppose to change port number from this file?

-AJ

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Can someone instruct me on how to change the listening port for ftp ( or any tcp service) from 21 to another port number? Thanks in advance..

-AJ

Thanks for that concise answer. I was just looking at the s88sendmail script before your posting..Answer me this, I am running run level 3, that would be rc3 scripts. Where does it say, while running...

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I have a question about running processes on my Sun. I want to know how I can find where these threads are being spawned from. I know about the /etc/init and /etc/rc#.d directories and...

Thanks for your advice, Coming from the Windows world. So basically, to do any administrative duties, I should su to 'root'. what about the sysadmin group would that allow me to do some things?...

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Thanks, I will try that, but if i choose to go throught the command line, are the rights automatically assumed. I am a member of that group, so I do not understand why I would have...

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Another newbie here and here is my dilemma. I created an account for me on Solaris 8 and I added myself to the root group. But when I login using that account I am unable to do superuser...