Solaris articles - church1e's blog

Reset lost Solaris root password using kmdb

21 Nov 2010 5 min(s) 37 sec(s) 2506 visits.

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

4 Mar 2010 43 sec(s) 2894 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 51 sec(s) 2624 visits.

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

25 Feb 2011 1 min 41 sec(s) 2918 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 min 54 sec(s) 2968 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 min(s) 45 sec(s) 3207 visits.

IPC allows information transfer or synchronization to occur between processes.

20 Jan 2010 2 min(s) 40 sec(s) 3073 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 min 39 sec(s) 3048 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.

8 Jan 2010 3 min(s) 41 sec(s) 2893 visits.

Applications or servers can sometimes fail with an error indicating that there are too many open files for the current process. Most of the time.

27 Dec 2009 34 sec(s) 733 visits.

How to change a user password on Solaris/Linux systems and also see password policy