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Dears, I just installed solaris ios on vmware and wanted to know the very first credentials to log into the system i assume the user is solaris but tried root or solaris for the password but with no success
EDIT: adding a picture of the first booting of the solaris on vmware
As noted by @schaiba and @Romeo Ninov, for the initial install for Solaris 11, root is created as a role. But the install process also asks you for an initial user which it will create with "admin" privs. Using this initial account you can use su or sudo to assume the root role.
Let's confirm the RBAC settings for root.
As you can see, the type is a role.
And it's set to use the users authentication (pw) to assume the role. Which allows us to not have to manage a root passwd.
[4] getent user_attr root
root::::roleauth=user;type=role;auths=solaris.*;profiles=All;audit_flags=lo:no;lock_after_retries=no;min_label=admin_low;clearance=admin_high
At the first time the user root has the same password as the user created in the installation process, to change the password root You must open a terminal and type su root then type the password of the user create during installation, You should the message "Password for user 'root' has expired" then type the new password
That happens when you use the Automated Install; use "root" as the login and "solaris" as the password.
