What I'm trying to do is come up with a way for a user to take over another users local session on a linux box. For example userA logs into a RHEL desktop and starts a process that lasts several hours. UserB comes in later and wants to check progress on the status. UserA and userB have separate accounts and can not share login information. I've figured out how to do this for a cli session with group permissions but am looking for any method to accomplish the same thing in a graphical environment. Additional packages are not out of the question but would prefer something from Red Hat or EPEL.
I am very inexperienced with HP-UX and need to duplicate a production server for a test environment. I have 11.11 on the prod server and have completed the base install on the test server. What I need is a way to add the installed packages from the prod server to the test server. Unfortunately I haven't the foggiest idea how to do this.
I've thought of using ignite backup and restore but don't have matching tape types between the two. The other thought was using swlist to gather the installed packages and then going to the website to download and install on the test environment.
Has anyone successfully done something like this?
Pointers?
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with a PERC 4 controller and SCSI drives. I need to clone that to a PE2950 with a PERC6i with SAS drives. I've used the DKMS package along with the latest driver on Dells website to create a driver disk and successfully installed by hand so I know that it will install but I need a good suggestion for cloning options. I've tried clonezilla but it does not recognize the hard drives and I'm no expert in debian based distros so I'm unable to manipulate it.
Does anyone know of a reliable way to clone this server? I imagine that if I can find a method to transfer the image then I will install the SAS driver on the source box before cloning it and it should be able to boot to the destination box.
Thanks all!
Due to some network changes one of our printers has a new IP. A user came to me today with the following quote: "I can't print from the linux." The IP was changed a month ago and apparently we don't do much printing from "the linux." All of that aside, I want to go into cups and change the IP address but before I proceed I want to know the current settings.
When "modifying" the printer from the cups web interface I essentially get to change everything but the name while all I need to do is change the IP address. I wouldn't be terribly concerned but this is a Dell 5210n which doesn't have a native driver. It does work with whatever ppd file is in use now but I don't have the desire to use trial and error to figure out what it is using. So my questions are as follows:
Is there a way (either command line or gui) to see what the current settings are for this particular printer?
Can I change just the IP address without having to make choices about what type of printer it is (5210n is not an option through modify printer)?
Can I do something with the existing ppd file to create a new queue using the appropriate IP address.
Is there a better way to do this?
The pertinent information is network connected Dell 5210n on a Dell server running RHEL 4 update 3 and that version of cups.
I want to enforce password complexity on my RH system (local authentication) and have discovered that I need a pam module line something similar to this:
password required pam_cracklib.so dcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 ocredit=-1 lcredit=0 minlen=8
My question is should I be altering /etc/pam.d/login or /etc/pam.d/system-auth and what is the difference between the two files?
I have a user with a username of jsmith who was recently married and wants her login to reflect her new married name: jdoe. I understand that usermod will make the changes but I am concerned about implications that I haven't thought of. I want to do the following:
mkdir /home/jdoe
chown jdoe:jdoe /home/jdoe
usermod -l jdoe -m /home/jdoe jsmith
cp -rp /home/jsmith/* /home/jdoe
The user belongs to a common group so there should be no GID issues and I've run find commands with no results looking for files owned by her GID.
From my experimentation: The usermod command changes ownership of all files with the UID of jsmith to jdoe. There are no files with her GID so that is moot. I'll have to go in manually to /etc/group and change her username in any group where she is a member.
Essentially my questions are these: Will /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow need to be altered by hand? Am I missing anything?