On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Tony Green wrote: > Andrew could have left off the fact that he is running SunOS 5.8 and > nobody would have questioned him. The solutions wouldn't have changed, > and he would not have got flamed, so was it worth it?
There would have been a difference, actually. The Solaris default install will not, AFAIK, let you login, even in single user mode, without the root password. You can make any Linux installation startup in single user mode, regardless of the default security on single user mode, by starting lilo with lilo: linux init=/bin/bash which bypasses the requirement to give the root password. I haven't been able to find _any_ way to make Solaris do the same - hence the requirement for booting from the installation media. My reply, without the specification of Sloaris, *would* have been different. Completely and utterly different - and ineffective. > Lets all play nicely shall we???? That's as nice as I get - and a damn site nicer than some other people are when the sacredness of the holy Linux list is abused. It's still a dumbshit idea - and would have been a dumbshit idea on Linux, Solaris, Novell or Windows bloody NT. Admin users are named thusly for a reason - not the least of which is commonality. I'll remember this reply - and the reply from the mighty committeeman Conrad - next time someone else asks question about a completely foreign operating system - like NT - and gets flamed for it. Sauce for the goose. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
