RHCSA exam prep recover root password

Your root password is lost and gone forever. Temporary video version without sound.[youtube][/youtube] Your sudo account has been blocked by an incompetent SA(System Administrator). This according to reports is often on the test. It takes 5 minutes to fix. Reboot your system and intervene on the kernel prompt. Press e to edit go down to […]

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The firewall project

Converting a fairly elaborate iptables based firewall with proprietary anti-spam scripts to the modern firewall-command architecture without revealing any IP. First lets take a look where we started: [root@instance-5 ~]# systemctl list-unit-files | egrep “iptables|firewall” firewalld.service masked iptables.service disabled                   This shows iptables as disabled but a […]

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Maria-db(mysql) two node installation with galera data replication

This is the first step toward unsupported installation of the NDC, New Data Cloud. To get the commercial version with full support, click here. This document takes you through the installation and creation of a two node database installation. This install was done in google compute engine but with the right band width will work […]

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Use TCP wrappers with care

Real life story.   DMZ based server dedicated to SFTP was configured with sshd rules in /etc/hosts.allow sshd : ALL@16.89.97.*:ALLOW sshd : ALL@14.251.*:ALLOW sshd : AAL@208.94.61.*:ALLOW Should have been: sshd : ALL@16.89.97.*:ALLOW sshd : ALL@14.251.*:ALLOW sshd : ALL@208.94.61.*:ALLOW That network was the firewall to the outside world. The end users were inconvenienced and the firewall […]

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Making sure what is configured to mount is mounted

Here is a script that uses some advanced awk commands to check that what is configured to be mounted in /etc/fstab is actually mounted. #!/bin/ksh ######################################################################### # fsrootreserve #HPUX_SCRIPTS=/opt/depots/scripts/system_build/HPUX #COMMON=/opt/depots/scripts/system_build/COMMON # Load common environment . /opt/scripts/env/.scriptenv.linux # set total variable for reserve blocks tot=0         echo “. Checking mount status of all […]

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