Abid R S wrote:
> Hi Team
> I m new to openSolaris and installed it using a live CD 2008.05.
> i found it to be quite similar to RedHat Linux but still many things are
> different.
> though i m loving it.
>
> i gave a command (passwd -d) on the bash shell with the root's role, as i
> dont like to be prompted for passwd again and again.
> now, i m not able to login to openSolaris, as its saying, password or userId
> is not correct.
If you created a user during the initial install of OpenSolaris via the
GUI installer then the root account is setup as a role. That means it
can not be logged into directly. It doesn't matter if it has a password
or not.
If you want to login directly as root then you need to convert the root
account from not being a role to being a "normal" account. To do that
login as the non root user that was created during install, then su to
root and run:
# usermod -K type=normal root
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Darren J Moffat
