> In any case, the magic command should be "pfexec". Use it like sudo > (i.e. "pfexec vi ....."). Failing that, you can use the "su" command, > and googling for default root password and your distribution name > should turn up the appropriate password to use.
Googling the default root password is not going to be of much help except when booting from optical media. Root's password is whatever the person who installed the system chose to use - and forget. BTW, root's password can be set in Ubuntu so that su rather than sudo can be used: sudo passwd root -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org