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Lock an user account in HP-UX

To lock an user account in HP-UX, you can use the following command:

/usr/lbin/modprpw -m alock=YES USER

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Merge many depots

When you have many depot files, you can create a single big depot and install it instead of install one by one.

Let’s assume that you need install the following depots, and they are all located in the directory /tmp/install/depots:

autoconf-2.64-hppa-11.11.depot
bison-2.4.1-hppa-11.11.depot
gawk-3.1.7-hppa-11.11.depot
sed-4.2.1-hppa-11.11.depot
tcltk-8.5.7-hppa-11.11.depot
texinfo-4.13-hppa-11.11.depot
zip-3.0-hppa-11.11.depot

To create a single depot, run the follow commands:

cd /tmp/install/
for i in `ls depots/*.depot` ;do swcopy -s /tmp/install/$i \* @/tmp/install/big;done

Now, to install it, you can use:

swinstall -s /tmp/install/big

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Solaris and NRPE

A very nice guide to install NRPE and nagios-plugins on Solaris 10 can be found here.

To stop/start the NRPE, you can use the following command:

svcadm disable svc:/network/nrpe/tcp
svcadm enable svc:/network/nrpe/tcp

If you keep getting the “CHECK_NRPE: Error – Could not complete SSL handshake.” message, see this FAQ comment

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Resizing lvol in Red Hat AS 4

As incredible as it seems, RHAS4 doesn’t came with the resize2fs command (just like the others RH distributions). After some research, I found the tool that replace the resize2fs command and it’s the ext2online, for example:

ext2online /dev/mapper/VG00-vl02


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rlogin access denied

In some specific situations, you need use rlogin to remote access a server, but you can face the following error:

clientServer:~ # rlogin rloginServer

Password:

Password:

Login incorrect

login: root

Password:

Login incorrect

login: root

Password:

Login incorrect

login: root

Password:

Login incorrect

rlogin: connection closed.

If you check the /var/log/secure log on the “rloginServer”, you will find the following messages:

Jun 15 10:44:41 rloginServer rlogind[16640]: pam_securetty(rlogin:auth): access denied: tty ‘rlogin’ is not secure !

Jun 15 10:44:41 rloginServer rlogind[16640]: pam_rhosts_auth(rlogin:auth): denied to root@10.11.4.9 as root: access not allowed

Jun 15 10:44:47 rloginServer login: pam_securetty(remote:auth): access denied: tty ‘pts/0′ is not secure !

Jun 15 10:44:51 rloginServer login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM 10.11.4.9 FOR root, Authentication failure

Jun 15 10:44:53 rloginServer login: pam_securetty(remote:auth): access denied: tty ‘pts/0′ is not secure !

Jun 15 10:44:58 rloginServer login: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM 10.11.4.9 FOR root, Authentication failure

Jun 15 10:44:58 rloginServer login: pam_unix(remote:auth): bad username []

Jun 15 10:44:58 rloginServer login: pam_succeed_if(remote:auth): error retrieving information about user

Jun 15 10:44:58 rloginServer login: FAILED LOGIN 3 FROM 10.11.4.9 FOR , User not known to the underlying authentication module

Jun 15 10:44:59 rloginServer login: pam_unix(remote:auth): bad username []

Jun 15 10:44:59 rloginServer login: pam_succeed_if(remote:auth): error retrieving information about user

Jun 15 10:44:59 rloginServer login: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM 10.11.4.9 FOR , User not known to the underlying authentication module


The problem here, is that “rlogin” is not a “secure” shell. To configure it, you should add “rlogin” (without the quotes) to /etc/securetty .

After that, you will be able to access the rlogin server.

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