I managed to corrupt my NetInfo database on an OS 10.4 server a few weeks ago by not cleanly unmounting the drive after booting from DVD and resetting the admin password. Long story short, this left me with no users on the system at all. With no users, I could not log in to create [...]
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So you have a RHEL system and you want to authenticate it against your active directory. The good news is that Red Hat has made it easy for you to do this. The bad news is that they only get the most basic structure working for you. Here I will show you how to get [...]
If you manage a UNIX system with a large number of directories that vary in size, chances are that you’ve needed to figure out which ones are using up the most disk space. Of course if the directories are user accounts, the best way to do this is to enable quotas and use the “repquota” [...]
