I ran into the same problem. The following solved my problem. I am not sure though this is the only or even correct way since I am also new to opensolaris:
http://malsserver.blogspot.com/2008/08/roles-can-only-be-assumed-by-authorized.html In order to make these helpful hints work you have to make sure that you are booting into textmode, because otherwise you will see the splashscreen and cannot login. This means apart from making the changes described to boot into single user mode you will also have to adjust your boot parameters to match those of the default text login. This means if I remember correctly removing the splash screen info and the kernel parameter gui login. Hope this helps and as I said earlier there probably is a simpler way to fix this. alex On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Kostas Oikonomou <ko at research.att.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am somewhat new to OpenSolaris 2008.11. I used Gnome's > System -> Administration -> Users and Groups tool to add > myself as "media manager" (or some such, can't recall right > now), in order to have write access to the DVD drive of my > laptop. (This had to do with getting the DVD writer to be > recognized by Virtual Box.) > > I must have done something wrong, because the result of > doing this is that now I cannot "su" any more, e.g. in a > terminal. I get the message "Roles can only be assumed by > authorized users". This happens whether I use the system's > root password, or my own ordinary user's password at the > "Password:" prompt. > > And I cannot use System -> Administration -> Users and > Groups to fix the problem, because it asks me for a root > password and doesn't accept any password I type. > > How do I fix this? Thanks very much. > > Kostas > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- Skype: al.gnodtke Google talk: gnodtke
