Consoles in solaris 9

I just installed Solaris 9 and can't use the ctrl-alt-f1, ctrl-alt-f2, etc as you can in Linux and BSDs. I installed Solaris 8 a while back and remembered using a purely text based console. Does Solaris 9 not support virtual consoles like a lot of other UNIXs do? I'm stuck in Gnome and am too used to using a console. Thanks.

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> To this point my Unix admin friends have not considered allowing any type of read access for <SID>adm to /etc/shadow.
> It is more likely to snow this week here in Texas than getting root access on these servers.
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