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Sun VTS – Sun Validation & Test Suite for hardware stress test

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SunVTS, Sun Validation Test Suite, tests and validates Sun hardware by verifying the configuration and functionality of hardware controllers, devices, and platforms. SunVTS is used to ensure a “clean bill of health” of the overall system under test and its underlying hardware. Several diagnosability features incorporated in the latest release makes SunVTS an effective online/offline […]

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nscd caching daemon in Sun Solaris

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The nscd daemon is a caching daemon in Sun Solaris. It provides caching services for hosts,passwd,group,ipnodes databases using various nameservice lookups like hosts file, DNS, NIS,NIS+ and more. Each cache has a separate time-to-live for its data and modifying the local database like /etc/hosts invalidates that cache within ten seconds. nscd doesn’t cache /etc/shadow (contains

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NFS Security – nfs_portmon to restrict client source port to privileged ports

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Network File System (NFS) security in Sun Solaris can be enhanced by restricting the source ports for the client connections for NFS to be only privileged ports. The privileged port range is from 512 to 1023. Enabling this security feature for NFS in solaris, checks if the source ports from the clients from privilege ports.

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How to recover/reset root password in Sun solaris (x86)

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I discussed here about resetting the password on Sun Solaris Operating system in SPARC platform. While the procedure is almost the same wherein you boot with the CD into single user mode and mount the root partition, here we discuss the procedure to reset the password for the root user on the x86 platform. It is recommeded that

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Solaris 10 & Solaris Express Hardware Compatibility list(HCL)

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As you are aware of, every Operating System has a Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). The Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) identifies hardware that is compatible with the Operating System and provides information about available software support. Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for Solaris 10 OS: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/ There are totally 906 system which includes OEM & System Vendor

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How to Install OpenSSH in Sun Solaris 9 (x86)

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OpenSSH is a free opensource version of the SSH connectivity tools. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks unlike Telnet,rlogin or ftp where the data is not encrypted and transmitted in plain text. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH

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