Hi Frank. Are you using OpenSolaris or Solaris 10? These are two very different operating systems (kind of like how Red Hat Fedora Linux and Mac OS X are different operating systems).
In Solaris 10 and Solaris Express, you can log in as the root user from the console right after you do the installation with no problems (there's no live CD for Solaris 10 though). You can download Solaris 10 here if you want to try it: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp but there's no way to try it without installing it first because there's no live CD for it. In OpenSolaris the root user does not exist as a user anymore. It only exists as a role that can be assigned to other users (for more effective security auditing, etc.) To log in as root from the console in OpenSolaris you have to create this root user (so that it's not a "role" any more) by following these steps: http://www.comp-sos.com/index.php/review/operating-systems/42-unix/80-install-azureus-open-solaris-200805 Message was edited by: system5 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
