Solaris

Issues pertaining to Sun Solaris Operating System.

How To Reset RSC thru Solaris

Here are the simple guide on how to reset the RSC thru the OS.

Try to check if the RSC is still responding:

root@solaris# /usr/platform/`uname -i`/rsc/rscadm shownetwork
rscadm: RSC firmware not responding~

To perform soft reset:

root@solaris# /usr/platform/`uname -i`/rsc/rscadm resetrsc -s
Are you sure you want to reboot RSC (y/n)?  y
rscadm: RSC firmware not responding

If it still not help, perform a hard reset on the RSC:

Solaris 10 Samba / ZFS Configuration

Check for the installation of Samba.

#pkginfo -x | grep -i samba

SUNWsmbac                         samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (client)
SUNWsmbar                         samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Root)
SUNWsmbau                         samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Usr)

2. To find view information for each package

Samba Client On Solaris 10

1. To check for the installation of Samba.

#pkginfo -x | grep -i samba

SUNWsmbac                         samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (client)
SUNWsmbar                         samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Root)
SUNWsmbau                         samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Usr)

2. To find view information for each package

#pkginfo -l SUNWsmbac

Solaris 10 Samba 3.0.x

Solaris 10 Samba Setup / Walkthrough

The following is a summary detailing step-by-step how to setup Solaris 10 as an active directory integrated file server using Samba and ZFS. The following example comes from a production configuration on an x4500 and previously a similar configuration was used on a production Linux file server for three years. I will update this web site as I test my final configurations.

Solaris 8 and 9 OS Harding Guidelines

Solaris 8 and 9 OS Harding Guidelines

 

1. Purpose of OS Hardening

Computers and network elements connected to networks are vulnerable to attacks. The following is a list of commonly known types of attacks:

1. Viruses, worms, backdoors and trojans
2. Wire tapping and sniffing
3. Password cracking
4. Exploits of known vulnerabilities such as software buffer overflow 5. Denial of services (DOS)

Sun E10K Cheat Sheet

E10K Commands

The tables below provide a summary of all E10K commands

Fixing the bad Solaris ssh patch

It turns out that there are actually three ssh problems introduced by the bad Solaris ssh patch. Since it's been well over a month with no sign or prospect of a fix from Sun, I gave in and applied workarounds. Fortunately, it turns out that all of problems can be made to go away with changes to /etc/ssh/ssh_config.

Ssh problem one is:

ld.so.1: sshd: fatal: libgss.so.1: open failed

Workaround for broken SSH servers and clients on SUN Solaris 9 through the installation of a patch cluster…

Disable ICMP timestamp response

Description:

Self-signed SSL Certificates in Web Server 6.1

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