Requirements for Using Solstice AdminSuite Tools

To use the Solstice AdminSuite tools, you must have:

• A bit-mapped display monitor. The Solstice AdminSuite tools can be used only on a system where the console is a bit-mapped screen such as a standard display monitor that comes with a Sun® workstation.

  If you want to perform administration tasks on a system with an ASCII terminal as the console, use the command-line equivalents of the Solstice AdminSuite tools.

• X Window System software, such as the OpenWindows environment.

• Root privilege or membership in the sysadmin group (group 14) and the required access privileges for managing the NIS or NIS+ database. See Chapter 2, Using Solstice AdminSuite in a Name Service Environment, for more information.

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  Note -

  AdminSuite has some limitations as to what you can or can not do as root; you should use the Solstice AdminSuite tools as a regular user who has membership in the sysadmin group (group 14) rather than as root.

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