Solaris articles - church1e's blog

Configuring link based IPMP on Solaris

14 Apr 2010 2 minute read 995 visits.

IP network multipathing (IPMP) provides a mechanism for building redundant network interfaces to guard against failures with network interfaces.

3 Apr 2010 1 minute read 3799 visits.

Using the usermod command on Solaris allows a sysadmin to unexpier/unlock a users login account

21 Nov 2010 5 minute read 2534 visits.

Performing a Solaris root password recovery when neither local cd/dvd or jumpstart (netinstall) options are avilable.

4 Mar 2010 1 minute read 2925 visits.

Changing a users password without user input is easy under Linux using the chpasswd command. On Solaris this does not exist.

25 Feb 2011 1 minute read 2646 visits.

This trick isn't widely known but you can install a Solaris package directly from a HTTP source.

25 Feb 2011 1 minute read 2950 visits.

Many people install lsof on their system as they know it from Linux. But you have a similar tool in Solaris, namely pfiles.

10 Feb 2010 1 minute read 3004 visits.

An article outlining steps needed to be able to use the SSH to access a remote system without supplying a password each time that you connect.

1 Feb 2010 2 minute read 3232 visits.

IPC allows information transfer or synchronization to occur between processes.

20 Jan 2010 2 minute read 3109 visits.

BART is a great little alternative to Tripwire or AIDE. While not so robust or full featured, it does what you need it to do with very little impact.

18 Jan 2010 1 minute read 3123 visits.

To ensure the security of passwords on Solaris systems, you need to edit the /etc/default/passwd file to enforce password length and complexity.