Eric Hamilton wrote: > I'm generally favorably impressed with the Indiana LiveCD and > installation. Still, as expected there are some kinks to work out... > > > Yes, I too see the problem of not being able to su after attempting > to add privileges via the Users & Groups -> Properties GUI. > > I can still power down the system via the power button, but I'm ready > to reinstall since I don't seem to be able to get the > privilege/role/root model sorted out. > > Here's my recollection of how I got here: > >> From LiveCD install, I created an account for myself and assigned a >> root password. [Bad practice or not, since it's a personal test >> machine I used the same password when the installer asked for a >> root password and for mine.] > > When logged into GNOME as myself, if I tried to Shutdown, got the > gnome-sys-suspend needs privilege error. >
This is bug #24 in bugzilla. It's waiting for someone in the desktop group to pick it up, as I've gone as far as I could in trying to diagnose it. > Went into Users & Groups, picked my account, clicked several > additional privilege boxes, hoping to make that problem go away-- I > did not clear any boxes. I did this a couple of times, adding > privileges each time. > > I no longer get the gnome-sys-suspend message when I Shutdown, but it > doesn't seem to do anything either. > > When I try to su to root, I get "Roles can only be assumed by > authorized users". > > Now when I try to bring up Users & Groups it prompts for a password > and won't accept either mine (which is same as root's) nor > "opensolaris". > What are the contents of your /etc/user_attr at this point? > It's also a bit unsettling that I don't seem to be able to get a > console log in from the GNOME login screen. Is that still possible > but not enabled by default, or no longer possible? > It's not possible with GDM at present, it needs virtual terminal support to be integrated. > I've read that at least some of these are already logged as bugs-- is > there anything someone wants me to try to reproduce or verify and log > or should I just reinstall and move on. > Log a bug on the problem with Users&Groups messing up privileges, as I don't think that's been filed. Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
