You are logged in to a Solaris 11 system as user jack.

Oracle Solaris provides predefined rights profiles. These profiles, listed in the /etc/security/prof_attr, can be assigned by the root role to any account. The root role is assigned all privileges and all authorizations, so can perform all tasks, just as root can when root is a user.

To perform administrative functions, you open a terminal and switch the user to root. In that terminal, you can then perform all administrative functions.

$ su - root

Password: Type root password

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When you exit the shell, root capabilities are no longer in effect.