LogoIts possible that sometime in your short, meaningless life, you may need to create an account that has a password that is set to never expire. This is somethimes the case with headless accounts and specialty accounts such as the type you might have to setup for monitoring or security scanning. You might also find yourself setting up shared headless accounts that have locked passwords in order to block direct logins. This second scenario can be especially troublesome when this is some sort of application or database user with cron jobs, as even an account without a password and expire and lock. If this occurs all of a users cron jobs will fail. All because the account expired.
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Sudosh Make Me a Sandwich: Install and Configure Sudosh in Solaris 9/10
SandwichWelcome to the way-back machine again. This time we are going to take a look at installing and configuring sudosh on Solaris with the purpose of using sudosh as a replacement for sudo (at least sudo to root). Using sudosh in this manner allows us to still allow users to become root, but also allows us to track each and every command that they run once they become root.
Solaris Package Management Cheat Sheet
Basic Solaris Package Management Commands
Solaris: How to Resize a Swap Partition….on a disk without any free slices
First lets detach the swap partition (submirror) on the secondary disk. Where d1 is the metadevice and d21 is the submirror #metadetach d1 d21 d1: submirror d21 is detached metaclear d21 d21: Concat/Stripe is cleared Now lets format Secondary Disk (c1t1d1 in this example) Below is the partition table of the disk that I am … Continue reading Solaris: How to Resize a Swap Partition….on a disk without any free slices
Solaris Soft and Hard Limits
Hard limits are a kernel-configurable item, and users can't exceed them. Soft limits are the user defaults, and users can change that using the ulimit program or the limit/unlimit builtins.
Sun 5220 Console and ILOM How To
As far as I know this documentation is specific to Sun T5150s and Sun T5250s. However some of the information below may also pertain to other Sun systems running ILOM.
Solaris HBA Notes
Below is a cheat sheet that I put together of commands that are helpful for managing HBAs on Solaris.