On 11/10/10 12:08, Ron Parker wrote:
I left a comment about this on the "Setting up the recommended build
environment" wiki page.[1] According to Rich Lowe a change in caiman
removed the "Primary Administrator" rights from the user that's
created during installation.[2]
I am relatively new to Solaris-based operating systems. What is the
"right" solution or workaround to this?
[1] http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Setting+up+the+recommended+build+environment
[2] http://www.illumos.org/issues/204#note-4
the intended use of Primary Administrator was that it be granted to a
non-root role account that would be used only during system
administration. caiman skipped that step and granted it to the initial
user. this was a bug, but casual use of pfexec as the initial user got
embedded into a bunch of documentation before it was fixed.
In the short term, the path of least resistance is to re-grant Primary
Administrator to the user doing the build:
% su root
Password:
# usermod -P 'Primary Administrator' build_user_name
but it's a big hammer (makes that user id equivalent to root).
I don't recommend that on a general purpose system; if you're setting up
an effectively single-user system just to do package builds, it should
be OK as a workaround for now.
- Bill
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