Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Michael Stapleton
Agreed. We have the choice of either, but often the organizations policy dictates the choice even if it does not seem to make sense. When root account access is forbidden, Primary Administrator allows someone the check the box in their security list. More importantly, Primary Administrator can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
by that reasoning, if you wanted a primary administrator, you'd assign the root role and be done with it. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Michael Stapleton wrote: > Hello, > > I have to disagree that having Primary Administrator was a blunder. How > it is used is a blunder. Primary administrato

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hello, I have to disagree that having Primary Administrator was a blunder. How it is used is a blunder. Primary administrator should never be assigned to a user account. In reality, no special privileges should be assigned to user accounts. Privileges/Profiles/Authorizations/Rights should only be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] statfs() problem with HP-UX 11.23, 11.31 client and oi_151a server

2011-11-27 Thread Gordon Ross
Do you compile it with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in the compiler flags? If not, does that change what you see when you run it? On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Albert Chin wrote: > We're running oi_151a and using it to serve up file systems to HP-UX > 11.23 and 11.31 hosts. Unfortunately, we're seei

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Matt Connolly wrote: > > On 28/11/2011, at 1:35 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: >> On 11/27/11 04:36, Matt Connolly wrote: >>> This still didn't help. But again, setting the root user password with >>> `sudo passwd root` enables me to authenticate to the root role usin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Matt Connolly
On 28/11/2011, at 1:35 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On 11/27/11 04:36, Matt Connolly wrote: >> This still didn't help. But again, setting the root user password with `sudo >> passwd root` enables me to authenticate to the root role using that root >> password. (not my user password, as I would u

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] statfs() problem with HP-UX 11.23, 11.31 client and oi_151a server

2011-11-27 Thread Albert Chin
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 08:04:33AM -0500, James Carlson wrote: > On 11/27/11 02:03, Albert Chin wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:48:39AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: > >> We're running oi_151a and using it to serve up file systems to HP-UX > >> 11.23 and 11.31 hosts. Unfortunately, we're seeing s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 11/27/11 04:36, Matt Connolly wrote: This still didn't help. But again, setting the root user password with `sudo passwd root` enables me to authenticate to the root role using that root password. (not my user password, as I would use with sudo). Any reason why the installer would not give

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] statfs() problem with HP-UX 11.23, 11.31 client and oi_151a server

2011-11-27 Thread James Carlson
On 11/27/11 02:03, Albert Chin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:48:39AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: >> We're running oi_151a and using it to serve up file systems to HP-UX >> 11.23 and 11.31 hosts. Unfortunately, we're seeing statfs() problems >> on this NFS server. We don't see this issue on any

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Chris Bünger
Am 27.11.2011 um 13:37 schrieb Matt Connolly : > > On 27/11/2011, at 10:08 PM, Chris Bünger wrote: > >> I think your User has to have the profile "Primary Administrator" in >> /etc/user_attr. > > This still didn't help. But again, setting the root user password with `sudo > passwd root` enables m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Matt Connolly
On 27/11/2011, at 10:08 PM, Chris Bünger wrote: > I think your User has to have the profile "Primary Administrator" in > /etc/user_attr. This still didn't help. But again, setting the root user password with `sudo passwd root` enables me to authenticate to the root role using that root passwor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BMC driver

2011-11-27 Thread Matt Connolly
On 09/08/2011, at 8:52 AM, jason matthews wrote: > Does the old trick of copying the BMC driver from NV134 or Solaris Express > 151 work on OI148? > > I have tried to load both versions of that driver they both bombed out. Has > anyone tried with OI151? Or am I just beating my head against the w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Chris Bünger
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 : > 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 -> Adminis

[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Matt Connolly
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 selec