[osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-11 Thread Andrew Watkins
I have lost the ability of making a user have access to root on Solaris 11 using the command pfexec. On the old Solaris 11 express box it works: === % grep andrew /etc/user_attr andrewprofiles=Primary Administrator;roles=root % id uid=102(andrew)

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/11/11 09:37, Andrew Watkins wrote: Now on Solaris 11 it does not: == grep andrew /etc/user_attr andrewprofiles=Primary Administrator;roles=root Solaris 11 no longer includes the Primary Administrator profile. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-11 Thread Glynn Foster
On 11/11/2011, at 4:39 AM, Al Hopper wrote: Hi Glynn et al, Congrats on getting Sol 11 out the door. Thanks. Question: is there, o, will there be, an AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2 Solaris 11 AMI available? This was a question asked at the launch event. At this stage, I don't have an

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 install trouble, NVIDIA

2011-11-11 Thread John Martin
On 11/10/11 21:09, Paul Gress wrote: /kernel/drv/amd64/nvidia: undefined symbol 'pm_destroy_components' warning: mod_load: cannot load module 'nvidia' You are using an old NVIDIA driver without the fix for IR 842949. Either use the bundled driver for Solaris 11 or any driver from nvidia.com

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-11 Thread Ian Collins
On 11/12/11 06:52 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 11/11/11 09:37, Andrew Watkins wrote: Now on Solaris 11 it does not: == grep andrew /etc/user_attr andrewprofiles=Primary Administrator;roles=root Solaris 11 no longer includes the Primary Administrator profile.

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-11 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/11/11 10:55, Ian Collins wrote: On 11/12/11 06:52 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 11/11/11 09:37, Andrew Watkins wrote: Now on Solaris 11 it does not: == grep andrew /etc/user_attr andrewprofiles=Primary Administrator;roles=root Solaris 11 no longer

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andrew Watkins and...@dcs.bbk.ac.uk wrote: I have lost the ability of making a user have access to root on Solaris 11 using the command pfexec. Allowing people to become root with pfexec is a secutity hole that I decribed years ago. People wo succeed to run commands via vulnerabilities of

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 install trouble, NVIDIA

2011-11-11 Thread Paul Gress
On 11/11/11 01:15 PM, John Martin wrote: On 11/10/11 21:09, Paul Gress wrote: /kernel/drv/amd64/nvidia: undefined symbol 'pm_destroy_components' warning: mod_load: cannot load module 'nvidia' You are using an old NVIDIA driver without the fix for IR 842949. Either use the bundled driver for