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Using SSH login without password

1 min 54 sec(s)    2988 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.

WMIC Cheat Sheet

1 min 9 sec(s)    538 visits.

A quick and useful cheat sheet for the Microsoft Windows WMIC command.

Solaris Basic Audit Reporting Tool (BART)

2 min(s) 40 sec(s)    3090 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.

Clearing Password History in Solaris 10

1 min 39 sec(s)    3080 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.

Enforcing password complexity on Solaris

4 min(s) 36 sec(s)    2715 visits.

Solaris 10 is the first version of Solaris to provide a complex set of variables for controlling password strength.

SSH Cheat Sheet

5 min(s) 24 sec(s)    861 visits.

This post provides me with a reminder of the syntax for the most useful SSH features I use whist auditing systems.

Troubleshooting 'too many open files'

3 min(s) 41 sec(s)    2913 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.