Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-04 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: > On 5/4/11 6:44 AM, Bayard Bell wrote: >> >> Does nsswitch.conf have you sourcing user_attr from a name service other >> than local files? Do you have any other snapshot images of your rpool that >> you can boot from grub? > > Sure messed this up

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-04 Thread Gary Gendel
On 5/4/11 6:44 AM, Bayard Bell wrote: Does nsswitch.conf have you sourcing user_attr from a name service other than local files? Do you have any other snapshot images of your rpool that you can boot from grub? Sure messed this up, didn't I? :( This is not an urgent thing. If I have to I'll r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-04 Thread Bayard Bell
Does nsswitch.conf have you sourcing user_attr from a name service other than local files? Do you have any other snapshot images of your rpool that you can boot from grub? On 4 May 2011, at 00:21, Gary Gendel wrote: > Hi, > > I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr. No

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-04 Thread Jonathan Adams
You could mount the disk on another system and modify the user_attr file directly ... requires another system with OpenIndiana though. On 4 May 2011 00:21, Gary Gendel wrote: >  Hi, > > I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr.  Now I > can't pfexec or do anythiing requirin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-03 Thread Gary Gendel
On 5/3/11 9:02 PM, Albert Lee wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jamon Camisso wrote: On 5/3/2011 7:21 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: Hi, I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr. Now I can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges (software manager, etc.). T

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-03 Thread Jamon Camisso
On 5/3/2011 9:02 PM, Albert Lee wrote: > You should still be able to use sudo, or su if you know the root password. That presumes the user in question has been added to sudoers file. Do many people do that as an alternative or in conjunction with RBAC? Unfortunately su will not work, since the or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-03 Thread Albert Lee
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jamon Camisso wrote: > On 5/3/2011 7:21 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: >>  Hi, >> >> I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr.  Now I >> can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges (software >> manager, etc.).  The laptop is running the d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-03 Thread Jamon Camisso
On 5/3/2011 7:21 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: > Hi, > > I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr. Now I > can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges (software > manager, etc.). The laptop is running the dev_il repository. How the > heck to I recover from this? T

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-03 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr. Now I can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges (software manager, etc.). The laptop is running the dev_il repository. How the heck to I recover from this? The only LiveCD I know of uses an earlier versio