It can happen to me.. to you.. or to one of your clients, where a machine will have to be worked on but the root password is somehow lost or forgotten. Pretty basic you might think, but you might be faced with this hurdle sooner than you think.
The above statements might already sound familiar to you. It is mentioned in the post tackling how to reset...
HOW-TO: Reset a Forgotten Root Password
It can happen to me.. to you.. or to one of your clients, where a machine will have to be worked on but the root password is somehow lost or forgotten. Pretty basic you might think, but you might be faced with this hurdle sooner than you think.
With the number of hosts to administer, the burgeoning problem of recalling passwords escalate. Discipline...
REVIEW: Seagate ST3640323AS 640GB SATA II Hard Drive
Hard drives have become cheaper by the day. Bigger sizes, bigger caches, faster spindles, you name it.. On the perspective of cost, price per gigabyte has gone down and is continuously doing so. It would not be a surprise if another release of a bigger, better hard drive happens...
FAQ: Workaround to Error Deleting File or Folder
"There’s No Such Thing As A Silly Question" -- does the cliche sound familiar? In this part of pimp-my-rig reloaded, technical questions are answered. Mail them to me and I will post the answers here. If you have a better answer, by all means share it with us.FAQ: Have you ever...
FAQ: More Secure Password-less SSH -- Windows to Linux
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The password-less...
FAQ: Password-less SSH -- Windows to Linux
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Password-less...
FAQ: Password-less SSH -- Two Distinct Accounts
"There’s No Such Thing As A Silly Question" -- does the cliche sound familiar? In this part of pimp-my-rig reloaded, technical questions are answered. Mail them to me and I will post the answers here. If you have a better answer, by all means share it with us.
FAQ: The previous FAQ outlined password-less ssh setup for a single account. Another scenario...
FAQ: Setup Password-less SSH
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FAQ: The age of the use of telnet has gone past. Although it is still used in some applications,...
HOW-TO: Mount ISO Images
There are a million reasons (perhaps exaggerated, but you get the point) why you should mount an ISO file. To name one, access to the harddrive is way faster than access to the optical drive. Another would be, not all hosts have optical drives or access to the physical host is restricted. Or perhaps, the device can read optical media but could not...
HOW-TO: Mount USB Thumbdrives in Solaris
USB thumbdrives have become mainstream. And most of the portable tools and utilities are stored in them. This is true for both Windows and Unix/Linux. But I recently was asked a question on how to mount USB thumbdrives in Solaris. Indeed, how is a thumbdrive mounted in Solaris?
Aside from the knowledge of mounting the USB thumbdrive, a more important...
FAQ: BIOS Detects 1066MHz Memory At Only 800MHz
"There’s No Such Thing As A Silly Question" -- does the cliche sound familiar? In this part of pimp-my-rig reloaded, technical questions are answered. Mail them to me and I will post the answers here. If you have a better answer, by all means share it with us.FAQ: A friend of...
HOW-TO: Replace Failed Drives Under SDS
In order to protect the operating system, avoid serious downtime, and most of all save previous man-hours, implementing RAID 1 (or mirror) using SDS was a very viable solution. Not only that, the solution is quick to execute and with considerable success at that.There are a lot of reasons disks and partitions fail. But when this happens, it should...
HOW-TO: Mirror Boot Drives Using SDS
Making use of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a logical thing to do, especially in implementation of architectures for data sensitive systems, especially servers. Another reason is avoid downtime in the event of a failure of a boot disk or the disk that stores the operating system. The latter is what this post wants to outline -- mirroring...
