Subscribe to RSS Feed

Unix

Making Path Persistent

December 7, 2009 by Yonah Russ

You can make the executable search PATH variable persistent in several ways:

  1. On the system level you can …
  2. On a per user level, or for the user root, you can …
Continue Reading »
No Comments

You could get this message for not having the right magic cookie on the client side, or for not having a cookie at all as was apparently my case.

In my case, the developers are being authenticated against Active Directory via Samba/Winbind. Their home directories are non-existent until the first time they login via SSH….

Continue Reading »
No Comments

Recently I started using SmartSVN running remotely on a Solaris 10 server and displaying on my Windows XP machine via Xming (the free Xserver). I quickly ran into some performance and usability issues which I hope to have solved.

There is an apparently known issue with running Java programs via X which causes all sorts…

Continue Reading »
No Comments

While the data sheet claims support for Solaris, there are several caveats which I have run into.

1. There is no mention of ZFS support in the data sheet and apparently, there is no support in the software either. One would expect this to be a non-question since ZFS has been part…

Continue Reading »
1 Comment

Someone currently building an internal development environment required some integration between servers using SSH and the webservd user.
He came to me when he saw that the default home directory for the webservd user is /.  He didn’t want to create a /.ssh/authorized_keys file and I didn’t blame him. My first reaction was to change…

Continue Reading »
No Comments