Upgrading a linux server to opensolaris oracle solaris blog. This article focuses on the third format with the full desktop environment, although most of the concepts discussed in this. Opensolaris prides itself on being a secure, stable, and highly scalable system. Once finished, youll have a fully installed opensolaris on zfs filesystems in the disk image. If you wish to change the default blank root password and set root password enter. After the acquisition of sun microsystems in 2010, oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and. I installed it on my spare laptop ibm t41, 4 years old. Opensolaris administration general it documentation d. Installing with the text installer installing oracle. Start virtualbox by using one of the following options. Users in oracle solaris 11 are identified by a user id and group id but we. As the system owner or administrator, you may sometimes require special privileges to configure or modify. In this article we will be using the solaris version 10 but you can follow the same instruction for the latest version of solaris 11 that has been just released. If you create a user account in this panel, you need to provide both the users password and a root password.
Tomcat certainly works, though everybody i know on opensolaris uses glassfish. How to recover root password unix and linux forums. Now you have a screen where you need to provide the administrators password root and user profile settings. Type the same password into the confirm field to ensure it is set correctly.
How to recover root password the unix and linux forums. Login with the username and password set with passwd, above. To start the installer from the live cd desktop, select the install opensolaris icon on the live cd desktop and double click on it. How to enable ssh login for root user after a fresh install. In a multiboot scenario, you install oracle solaris 11 on the bare metal alongside your existing operating systems. How to install solaris 1011 on vmware workstation 12. Change requirements for passwords on oracle solaris 11.
Start the installed opensolaris from the disk image. Solaris uses nfsv4 by default, but nfsv4 is broken on linux 2. If you forget the root password and you cannot log into the system, you will have to do the following. Having just found myself in the same boat, here they are first, boot from the opensolaris live cd and get yourself a root shell. The crontab file will be placed in the varspoolcroncrontabs directory verify your crontab file changes. Just use sudo from your initial user login account if your need root. Not all options need to be provided with the command. I need to install a few packages that are not available in current opensolaris repositories. Between the new file system, zfs, and some restrictions on the use of blank passwords, resetting a forgotten root password can be a bit of a pain unless you know exactly the right incantations. The following example shows how to create a crontab file for another user.
A more solaris style alternative might be to grant these users the primary administrator profile andor grant them the root role. By default when you install a fresh solaris 10 operating system, the root user does not have an ssh login access to the system. Sun have a lot of documentation to guide you through the installation process, including documents on installing opensolaris under virtualbox and how to make a dual boot system. Images for several opensolaris versions are available. This scenario is the most complicated and requires some preparation. Remove all partitions on selected drives and create default layout. When i read the release announcement and release notes for slackware linux. Dec, 2007 the system will restart and youll see the opensolaris login prompt in a few seconds, enter the username and password you have created earlier and enjoy a nice and fast solaris operating system. Now that the opensolaris system is installed on the disk image, we can use that to boot from. On windows, click the start button and select virtualbox from the list of programs. This is the only situation where you can log in to the installed system as root without manually changing the role assignment for root. The root account on a linux system is not subject to most normal account restrictions. When you installed ubuntu you were asked to create a user with a password.
In previous updates of the oracle solaris 10 os, a root user was exempt from any configured password policy constraints. Solaris 11 how to manage cron and crontab in solaris 11. In our previous article we setup a new virtual machine for solaris on vmware workstation 12 and now we are going to show you a complete demonstration on the installation of solaris 1011. Get the latest tutorials on sysadmin, linuxunix and open source topics via rssxml feed or weekly email newsletter. How to recover root password in solaris, i forgot root password. Enable the service for the ssh remote login program. Fedora displays the characters as asterisks for security. Fedora uses a special account named root for system administration. As a matter of fact, as i said earlier, we wont provide a root password for ubuntu images and for those other distribution that decide not to set a root password by default because one of the aim of the project for vanilla images is to be vanilla even in what can possibly be considered a defect or even bother users. Users and roles in oracle solaris 11 the urban penguin. Dec 14, 2008 once finished, youll have a fully installed opensolaris on zfs filesystems in the disk image. There is no wheel group or equivalent under these oses although nothing forbids to create one and configure sudo to allow passwordless root commands. The preinstalled virtualbox software is usually the open source edition ose, which might not be suitable for running the opensolaris 2008.
The oracle solaris 11 live media includes the gnome partition editor, gparted, which you can use to partition your hard disk. The apache web server is listed as d and the linux kernel is listed as linux. I knew that it wouldnt be trivial, for two main reasons. It may not be a bad first step to deploy into a lx branded zone think freebsd jails or linux vserver for a comparison, as the lx branded zones can run linux binaries, and are explicitly centosrhel based.
Well, since im still a primary administrator, i can still do it using pfexec. While booting off the live media, the default user login and password is jack. Enter the root password into the root password field. This guide will help you to create an opensolaris paravirtualized xen guest under debian lenny.
Finally, you need to set a root password, create one user account, and give the host a name. If you gave this user a password as requested then this is the password you need. You can no more log in as root with solaris 11 as, by default, root is not an account but a role. Lithuanian to select the keyboard layout, enter a number default 41. If you are already logged as root, directly running vi will obviously still work. The distribution is a point of integration for several current projects on opensolaris.
Dec 17, 2007 once the once bootable system is correctly mounted read and write as a data disk on another system, the easiest thing to do with unix and linux is to change roots password to null, by making the password entry empty in the etcpassword file. Display the ip address that is assigned by dhcp to the target system. For the solaris 8 operating system solaris 8 os, this cdrom is disk 1 of 2. Once the once bootable system is correctly mounted read and write as a data disk on another system, the easiest thing to do with unix and linux is to change roots password to null, by making the password entry empty in the etcpassword file. Hi, follow the procedure to delete and reset a lost root password 1 insert the solaristm 2. Hi, we forgot the root password on suse version 10 server. By default, the root account password is locked in ubuntu. Sep 03, 2009 when i read the release announcement and release notes for slackware linux. Sep 08, 2009 default language in which you will use your opensolaris operating system. Cons, especially when compared with consumer grade linux distributions like ubuntu, include extremely sparse oss application repository to draw from. There is also an auxiliary account, jackjack, that is used in certain rare situations. This makes root a normal user which is not recommended btw.
I multiboot opensolaris and several linux distributions, and that only works using. Recovering solaris 8 root password the unix and linux forums. How to boot into single user mode and reset root password in linux duration. To activate the password the root user or a user with the privileges to set the password. The system will restart and youll see the opensolaris login prompt in a few seconds, enter the username and password you have created earlier and enjoy a. Ive had a solaris nas for some time now, with data shared over nfs for linux clients and cifs for windows clients. Zfs has already been designated as the default root file system, now that it has been proven in the field, for both opensolaris and solaris 10.
The fsck also confirms that you selected the proper slice. To create a user account, type a username and password. Change in the default behavior when a root user resets password 6968855. This will ensure that no password is required when logging in as root. The default user login and password for oracle solaris is jack.
After you set the root password, select next to proceed. If linux is your existing os, be sure to back up your grub configuration file. Click next click install to perform the installation. I multiboot opensolaris and several linux distributions, and that only works using the grub from opensolaris, so i have to be careful not to replace that. Note download the latest version of virtualbox as described previously, even if your linux distribution comes with a virtualbox version preinstalled. In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. This example shows how to display the default root crontab file. I think the livecd zfs pool will displace the normal rpool. Sep 16, 2008 finally, you need to set a root password, create one user account, and give the host a name. Here you can just press enter to continue if you are using a us keyboard. The final version of the opensolaris operating system was released a few days ago and it brings a brand new image packaging system ips, zfs as the default filesystem, and dtrace enabled packages so you can keep an eye on everything and squeeze the juice out of your system.
Lpic2 certified linux engineer lpic1 linux administrator. The author is the creator of nixcraft and a seasoned sysadmin, devops engineer, and a trainer for the linux operating systemunix shell scripting. Beginning with this oracle solaris 10 release, a root user user id 0 by default has to comply with the configured password policy in the etcdefaultpasswd file. Beginning with this oracle solaris 10 release, a root user user id 0 by default has to comply with the configured password policy in the etc default passwd file. There is no need to use pfedit then vi, just one of these will do.
Since i didnt have suse dvd, i started the server using redhat. Oracle solaris 11 is distributed in several formats. Stop the system by using the keyboard stop sequence. Dec 05, 2008 now, i can no longer assume the root role. On linux, select virtualbox from the system tools menu gnome. Remove linux partitions on selected drives and create default layout. If you are prompted to log in to the live cd, both the user name and password are jack. There is no ubuntu linux root password set by default and you dont need one.
Change myhostname to your opensolaris hostname and myshare to the root directory being shared. Set the root password, you may need it to get back to your session in case if screen saver starts. If not, or you have forgotten it, then you need to set a password. Jan 27, 2016 setup your strong root password for your system and press f2 key to continue if you wish to leave your password as blank as yet. By default root does not have a password and the root account is locked until you give it a password. Oracle solaris command reference for linux users fujitsu. Jul 20, 2015 example 3 displaying the default root crontab file. At the console login, type the default login and password. In this case, root will be a role assigned to the user.
With nt, you may be able to extract the sam file and use a cracker like l0pht to reveal the. It includes root password, username, password for the username and computer name. Enter a root password, and create a nonroot user account i used admin and will create another user account later for myself so i can specify the uid i want it to be 0 to match the one on my other machines so nfs works ok enter a machine name. But avoid asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. In the 811 release of solaris 10 oracle determined that root needed. Opensolaris 200906 forgotten root password showing 18 of 8 messages. Apparently, the best way to do this is to build them using sfe. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. I dont know how to mount the root partion of a zfs filesystem. For indication about the gnome version, please check the nautilus and gnomeshell packages. It was also the name of the project initiated by sun to build a developer and user community around the software. Enter a root password and confirm it by entering the same.
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