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Sun EEPROM Security

On Sun workstations and servers you can interact with the boot EEPROM (NVRAM) at any time by holding down the STOP (L1) key and pressing the "a" key

Sun Diskless Workstation Boot Sequence

To boot diskless workstations need to determine who they are, locate their boot server, locate their kernel and mount file systems from the server

NIS+ Credential Setup

To gain authorisation to change NIS+ databases you need to create your security credentials for the NIS+ principals

Useful Sun OpenBoot PROM (obp) commands

All the following commands are to be run from the ok prompt of the SPARC OBP and not the Solaris operating system.