Bug #1055
closed
Root user password + GUI tools problem
100%
Description
On a fresh install of OI, the root password is expired and requires changing before commands like sudo can be ran. This is fine on the terminal as it simply asks for a new password (the current being whatever the user specified during install). However, a more typical scenario is that the user will try to run a program in the GUI that requires admin privs, and it will ask for admin password, but will always fail due to password expiry. If you go to the console and update the root password, the gui stuff works as expected. Either password for root needs to not expire (unlikely), or we need to check for expiry and pop up a nice dialog asking to update before continuing (more likely).
Related issues
Updated by Andrew Stormont over 12 years ago
sudo works fine. pfexec is the problem
Updated by Guido Berhörster over 12 years ago
Either password for root needs to not expire (unlikely), or we need to check for expiry and pop up a nice dialog asking to update before continuing (more likely).
The former is the proposed solution for oi_151, later builds should have fixes from Oracle to deal with expired passwords more gracefully.
Updated by A L about 12 years ago
- Target version changed from oi_151 to oi_151_stable
Updated by Ken Mays over 10 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Assignee deleted (
Guido Berhörster) - Target version deleted (
oi_151_stable) - % Done changed from 0 to 100
Resolved in using JDS updates from pkg.opensolaris.cz:10000.