Knight Talks Tech

Year: 2011

  • SnipIT No 2: Lock/Unlock User Account in Solaris

    SnipIT is a series of short blogs containing useful information in an easily digestible format. When logged in as root you can lock and unlock a user account with the passwd command. Lock an Account passwd -l Unlock an Account passwd -u Confirmation of either change is then shown: passwd: password information changed for

  • SnipIT No 1: Checking Permissions in Solaris

    SnipIT is a series of short blogs containing useful information in an easily digestible format. First up; How to check permissions of files and folders in Solaris. This may seem obvious to some but to new-comers it should prove useful. File Permissions ls -al The a option lists all the files in the directory, including…

  • Basic User Administration in Solaris

    Here are some pointers on performing basic user administration in Solaris, e.g. adding and removing/deleting a user. The commands useradd, usermod and userdel are available from /usr/sbin when logged in as a user with root privileges. To Add a User useradd -u 1001 -d /export/home/timb -m -s /bin/bash -c “Tim Bow” -g 100 timb -u…

  • What version of Oracle is installed?

    It may seem like a strange thing for a DBA to have to find out as the assumption may be that the DBA already knows or can recall all the instances and version numbers installed instantly from memory, but if one needed to find out the version of Oracle and any installed options, this may…