I think your User has to have the profile "Primary Administrator" in /etc/user_attr.
Cheers Chris Am 27.11.2011 um 11:24 schrieb Matt Connolly <matt.connolly...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > I've just set up a new oi151 workstation, but am having a problem using the > root role from any of the gui panels. (System -> Administration -> Services, > or nwam-manager-properties from top task bar). > > When using the "lock" icon in the SMF Services panel, for example, it asks me > to select a user, and then to select a role, which I select "root", and then > that the role must be authenticated but it does not accept my password. > > I can "sudo" with no problems, though. > > And here's an interesting thing, I added a password to the root user with > "sudo passwd root" that is different to my user password. I figure this > should have no affect since root is a role not a user, right? > > Now, in the services panel, I can select "matt" as the user, then "root" as > the role and then authenticate using the root password (not my user password). > > Is this how it is supposed to work? To access the root role, you need to use > the root password, not your user password? > > And if so, why did the installer ask for a root password but not configure it > correctly? (I could only access these panels after doing `sudo passwd root`) > > > > Matt. > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
