Re: [osol-discuss] basic how to for solaris express community?

2009-07-13 Thread UNIX admin
For instance, the install didn't allow me to create both a root user and an admin user account like the opensolaris install does. I've been able to log in as root and create a user but how do i convert the system to the root role type system of opensolaris? You don't need it; all

Re: [osol-discuss] basic how to for solaris express community?

2009-07-13 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
For instance, the install didn't allow me to create both a root user and an admin user account like the opensolaris install does. I've been able to log in as root and create a user but how do i convert the system to the root role type system of opensolaris? You don't need it;

Re: [osol-discuss] basic how to for solaris express community?

2009-07-13 Thread UNIX admin
The thing is trivial. If you can't master it, refrain from advising others. Buddy, I've got formal education and training in using RBAC. RBAC is *very* good at what it is meant to be used, large systems with different administrators doing different things. Don't compare it with sudo or su,

Re: [osol-discuss] basic how to for solaris express community?

2009-07-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: As far as MANPATH is concerned, unset it on OpenSolaris. man works it out of PATH (I guess unless you want any special search rules, but for normal work that's best). The OP was asking about Solaris Express: Community Edition, which is most similar to Solaris 10, not

Re: [osol-discuss] basic how to for solaris express community?

2009-07-13 Thread david
If you are going to use the SXCE, but want it to behave like OpenSolaris here is what you do. As Root use the GUI to add another user. Then open the terminal. Type: rolemod -K type=role root Then log out. Log in as your new user. Open a terminal. type: usrmod -R root USERNAME In this

[osol-discuss] basic how to for solaris express community?

2009-07-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
Hello, I recently migrated to opensolaris after using linux and freebsd for a couple years. I am quickly falling in love with the system. My primary use for THIS computer is desktop usage but i have a fileserver i'm considering switching to solaris. Because of how great i found Opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] basic how to for solaris express community?

2009-07-12 Thread Orvar Korvar
SCXE is released every two weeks, with minimal testing and it can have bugs. Each half year, one release is tested more extensively and released as an OpenSolaris version. The latest is OpenSolaris 2009.06, which is based on SCXE build 111b. SXCE has now reached build 117. However, you can

Re: [osol-discuss] basic how to for solaris express community?

2009-07-12 Thread Jerry Tan
Hello, I recently migrated to opensolaris after using linux and freebsd for a couple years. I am quickly falling in love with the system. My primary use for THIS computer is desktop usage but i have a fileserver i'm considering switching to solaris. Because of how great i found