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End of an Era

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With sadness yesterday saw Sun Microsystems becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle.

WMIC Cheat Sheet

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

Solaris Basic Audit Reporting Tool (BART)

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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

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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

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

SSH Cheat Sheet

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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'

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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.