Ivan Wang wrote: >>Jake Hamby wrote: >> >> >>>One feature that is currently missing from the gdm2 >>> >>> >>login service compared to "dtlogin" is being able to >>drop down to a console login, do some work (for >>example on the Xserver configuration), and then have >>X restart when I log out. In the Linux world, this >>isn't really necessary since you can always hit >>CTRL-ALT-F1 to jump to a virtual console, although in >>this case you might have to manually shut down gdm >>and restart it. >> >[snipped ...] > Since virtual terminal is not available long ago in Solaris, to gain access > to system console, dtlogin "Command line login" is the only way I can tell.. > Any better way doing that? network login requires a working network > connection, which is not always available when doing system administration > work. > > I am all for having a command line login no matter what display manager will > be adopted in the future. > > One inelegant way to go to console from GDM would be to disable it from the failsafe terminal.
In GDM screen select Failsafe Terminal Login as root Execute: svcadm disable gdm2-login Window system exits and you are dropped onto system console login Later when you are done, login to console as root and execute: ((sleep 5 && svcadm enable -s gdm2-login)&) ; exit The above is copied out of Darren Moffat's blog. Though the following simpler code also works for me: svcadm enable -s gdm2-login; exit Regards, Moinak.
