From your last post guess this is Solaris 11 in which 'root' is a role by default for improved security.
If you are used to Solaris 10 and prefer to work that way then you can convert the root role into a normal account using (you must be superuser first):
then set the root passwd:
You can then login as root just like Solaris 10 and you will know the root password for single user startup.
When done you can revert root to a role using 'usermod' command.
thanks, i will give that a try, but my issue is on Solaris 10. we most likely will not go to 11 now since, development has ended. Will prob move to Linux.
I would be careful with rolemod. Not that at the end root lost its superuser role and cannot gain it back...
You see, I have never used rolemod.
I would rather save /etc/shadow (with cp to a new file) or save root's password hash.
Then set a new root password. Then reboot to single-user, now typing the root password, patching the OS, and reboot.
When everything is nice and shiny again, you can restore the shadow file (with cp) or root's password hash, so the old unknown password is back.
Hi this may be a easy question to answer but thanks in advance.
So I was able to download the VIOS media from IBM and currently I am burning it to a cd/dvd right now.
The steps I've collected so far are from the net. can you please confirm and add on to the steps if there are any steps... (0 Replies)
All I'm running an OpenSolaris system (Nexenta). When doing a svcs I see that/network/smb/server is in maintenance mode.
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:confused:
when i tried to look the status of DNS-client, it is in maintenance mode.....
Please tell me how to bring it back to online mode...PLEASE TELL ME STEP BY STEP.... PLEASE...
:wall: (2 Replies)
I have seen similar threads on this issue, but I have not seen a fix. Basically I am getting a lot of rcp bind errors. Below find the output of "svcs -xv". not sure where to begin:
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Hi,
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name Hudson Continuous Build Server
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Hello All,
On solaris 10 server i could see the FTP service is in maintenance mode always :mad:
Could some assist?
svcs -xv
svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default (NFS lock manager)
State: maintenance since Tue 28 Jul 2009 11:47:55 AM BST
Reason: Restarting too quickly.
See: Sun... (5 Replies)
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hi,
i figured why i need to boot in MMB,some of which are missing or corrupt LABEL (LIF labeL ,i guess) on the boot disk.
To explicitly corrupt this entry i think a simple dd will work.
ok let me elaborate this issue:
i need to check this functionality.
so i have one LVM boot disk
and one... (0 Replies)