Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to login as root

2010-09-25 Thread Kevin J. Woolley
On Saturday, 25 September, 2010 16:09, "Jeppe Toustrup" said: > Maybe it would be easier to just refer to users should use "sudo" > instead of "su", that would be the same way to get root access as ie. > Ubuntu uses, which people trying out OpenIndiana may have tried > before. My personal obser

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to login as root

2010-09-25 Thread Kevin J. Woolley
On Saturday, 25 September, 2010 15:49, "Daniel Kjar" said: > I would suggest mentioning a reason why this strangeness exists. You > may know why, and your friends may know why, but for the life of me I > can't imagine anyone else understanding this 'feature' out of the box. I haven't the fainte

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to login as root

2010-09-25 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
2010/9/26 Daniel Kjar : > I would suggest mentioning a reason why this strangeness exists.  You may > know why, and your friends may know why, but for the life of me I can't > imagine anyone else understanding this 'feature' out of the box. Maybe it would be easier to just refer to users should us

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to login as root

2010-09-25 Thread Daniel Kjar
I would suggest mentioning a reason why this strangeness exists. You may know why, and your friends may know why, but for the life of me I can't imagine anyone else understanding this 'feature' out of the box. On 09/25/2010 03:52 PM, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: On Saturday, 25 September, 2010 11:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to login as root

2010-09-25 Thread Kevin J. Woolley
On Saturday, 25 September, 2010 11:17, "Jasse Jansson" said: >> That password for root was set to expire so you will then be prompted >> for a new root password. Once done you can use the root password for >> the privileged utilities such as package manager. > Yep, that's it. Works fine now. >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to login as root

2010-09-25 Thread Jasse Jansson
On 09/25/10 07:49 PM, Jon Tibble wrote: On 09/25/10 06:22 PM, Jasse Jansson wrote: I just installed oi147 from the live CD but I can't get access to the setup utilities nor login as root I can't find any relevant info on the oi website about this. I must have missed something obvious for sure.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to login as root

2010-09-25 Thread Jon Tibble
On 09/25/10 06:22 PM, Jasse Jansson wrote: I just installed oi147 from the live CD but I can't get access to the setup utilities nor login as root I can't find any relevant info on the oi website about this. I must have missed something obvious for sure. Pointers appreciated. __

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to login as root

2010-09-25 Thread Jasse Jansson
I just installed oi147 from the live CD but I can't get access to the setup utilities nor login as root I can't find any relevant info on the oi website about this. I must have missed something obvious for sure. Pointers appreciated. ___ OpenIndiana-