Re: [osol-discuss] root account

2009-10-15 Thread Scott Rotondo
Harry Putnam wrote: Oscar del Rio writes: No problems here. After enabling RootLogin and setting root as a regular account, I can ssh as root without any errors or warnings. Thanks... What do you mean by `setting root as a regular account'? Something more than having a passwd and home direc

Re: [osol-discuss] root account

2009-10-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Rotondo writes: >> But some posters here have said in build 124 root has been removed as >> an account...or reduced to a role or something like that, so depending >> on what you mean by `setting root as a regular account', I'm not >> sure whats going on. > > I believe the root account has

Re: [osol-discuss] root account

2009-10-15 Thread Norm Jacobs
Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Rotondo writes: But some posters here have said in build 124 root has been removed as an account...or reduced to a role or something like that, so depending on what you mean by `setting root as a regular account', I'm not sure whats going on. I believe the

Re: [osol-discuss] root account

2009-10-15 Thread Scott Rotondo
Harry Putnam wrote: It may have... but it was still possible to have root as an account and to ssh to root if you set it up in /etc/sshd_config... I've been doing it since 2008.11 b101 It's only between 118 and 124 that things got more complicated... bringing Pam in as enforcer I guess. But t

Re: [osol-discuss] root account

2009-10-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Norm Jacobs writes: [...] > I thought that it has been enforced since the root account was > converted to a role. As I mentioned in a different thread, you can > configure PAM to not enforce this for ssh (or other services). Others > have mentioned that you can convert root back to a user acc

Re: [osol-discuss] root account

2009-10-16 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-10-16 03:23:07, Harry Putnam wrote: | | I remember having done something way back... I think it was posted on | an opensolaris.org page... how to setup a root account and login as | root. Any way it was fair

Re: [osol-discuss] root account

2009-10-16 Thread Scott Rotondo
Bryan Allen wrote: +-- | On 2009-10-16 03:23:07, Harry Putnam wrote: | | I remember having done something way back... I think it was posted on | an opensolaris.org page... how to setup a root account and login as | root

Re: [osol-discuss] root account

2009-10-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Bryan Allen writes: > > $ pfexec rolemod -K type=normal root > > See Also: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/login.html Scott Rotondo writes: > Bryan Allen wrote: >> +-- >> | On 2009-10-16 03:23:07, Harry Putnam