Zone creation(zonecfg) fails

Question

I had created a few zones as root, and now when i try to create zones as a non-root user , it errors out
#/usr/sbin/zonecfg -z zone-appconfig
WARNING: you do not have write access to this zone's configuration file;
going into read-only mode.
zonecfg:zone-appconfig> create
zone-appconfig: cannot create in read-only mode.
#id
uid=150(user) gid=1(other)
Following are the zones that i had created as root
#/usr/sbin/zoneadm list -cv
ID NAME STATUS PATH
0 global running /
1 zone-small running /export/home/zone-small
- zone-whole configured /export/home/zone-whole

Answer 1

Ok..i could reach one more step by doing the following
.../etc/zones wasnt setup as world writable
# ls -l |grep zones
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Jan 2 13:25 zones
# chmod g+w zones
# chmod o+w zones
# ls -l |grep zones
drwxrwxrwx 2 root sys 512 Jan 2 13:25 zones
zone-appconfig: No such zone configured
Use 'create' to begin configuring a new zone.
zonecfg:zone-appconfig> create
zonecfg:zone-appconfig> set zonepath=/home/abc
zonecfg:zone-appconfig> verify
zonecfg:zone-appconfig> exit
zone-appconfig: Problem updating index file
Configuration not saved; really quit (y/[n])? n
zonecfg:zone-appconfig> commit
zone-appconfig: Problem updating index file
zonecfg:zone-appconfig>
This is probably index file somewhere which isnt writable by my non-user account :(
Any help is appreciated...thx!!