Hello again earthlings. The fatmin returns once again to dispense a bit of wisdom. This handy one-liner is a command that for the life of me I cannot remember. Our story begings when building your kickstart config and post-install config files you are going to need to set the password for at least one user … Continue reading Enycrypting Passwords Via SSL for Redhat Kickstart Configuration Files
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You are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam configuration.
PD Donut Guy with ShadowHey look a real live Linux post. Sure enough and right as rain I am back with something that is not about networking (yea!) and not about Solaris (yuck). In this case we had a user who is in our database team who was attempting to make modifications to the oracle user's crontab. However they kept running into the error below
HomeLab: Upgrading Cisco IOS Via tftp on RHEL
0012fbf7_mediumSo I was planning on blogging about this process simply because I keep forgetting it. Being that I am in the middle of building out my lab, and have a ton of old cisco hardware with ancient images, I have found myself going through the process of updating firmware quite a bit as I tinker with different IOS images.
I have no name! – RHEL 6 and SSSD Issue.
This is an interesting one that I ran into today on an RHEL 6.3 VM that is using SSSD for authentication against LDAP.
User contacted me stating that he was unable to su to a particual user.
RHEL6 – Mount: Could Not Find Any Free Loop Device
So I ran into this one today on RHEL 6.0 when trying to mount up a few additional isos on one of my remote kickstart servers. I have actually run into this issue before in RHEL 5 ( see here) however being that this particular kickstart server was built using RHEL 6.0 and not RHEL … Continue reading RHEL6 – Mount: Could Not Find Any Free Loop Device
RHEL6 – Quick and Easy Samba Configuration Guide – Part II
A few weeks ago i published a Quick and Easy Samba Configuration Guide, which can be found here. After messing around with samba on and off since then I have learned a few things that I wanted to document before I totally forgot them. So lets down to business. Samba Password Failures So I have … Continue reading RHEL6 – Quick and Easy Samba Configuration Guide – Part II
RHEL6 – How to Manually Logout of an Iscsi Disk
One of the issues that I have run into in the past when working with iscsi disks occurs when a host (initiator) is unable to logout gracefully from an iscsi disk when attempting to shutdown or reboot a host. Note that this is a known issue and is documented here and here. I have not read completely through the RHEL 6 Bugzilla to see if the issue has been resolved, however I can tell you that I have seen this issue in RHEL 6.2.