Working in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) trying to delete an Organizational Unit (OU), you get the following error : Active Directory Domain Services You do not have sufficient privileges to delete < Organizational Unit >, or this object is protected from accidental deletetion. By default, you need to uncheck the box “Protect object… Read More »
This tutorial is about generating a SSL certificate to secure POP3 and IMAP communications between clients (MUA) and Qmail server (MTA). 1. Go to Qmail config directory : cd /var/qmail/control 2. Generate key : openssl genrsa -des3 -out servercert.key.enc 2048 3. Decrypt the key (get rid of the passphrase) : openssl rsa -in servercert.key.enc -out… Read More »
Having this issue on Linux machine trying to run command as a user who require /proc filesystem (such as top or htop) ? [user@server ~]$ top top: /proc is not mounted, required for output data [user@server ~]$ htop Error: could not read procfs (compiled to look in /proc). This usually happen because /proc lose… Read More »
There is some useful repositories for SuSE Linux. Just add the version of the distribution you are using at the end of the links before adding them to YaST. UnixHeads Packman : http://packman.inode.at/suse/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/packman/suse/ VideoLAN Client : http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/ Nvidia : ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/
I recently experience this error repeated many times (about once every 11 minutes) in system log (/var/log/message) on FreeBSD system : cron[xxxxxx]: _secure_path: cannot stat /etc/login.conf: Permission denied Apparently, it look like the folder /etc lose his permission ; currently 700 (drwx——) and should be 755 (drwxr-xr-x) owned by root and wheel group of course.… Read More »
There is a ton of reasons why you would use SSH keys to log into your Linux/Unix systems automatically : – Faster than entering password – More secure than password – Automate login for backup using Rsync – And a lot more ! Actually, this is pretty easy to do – so let’s start generating… Read More »
To install VMware Tools from the ESX repository on RedHat/CentOS Linux guests using YUM, you need first to install the public key : rpm –import http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub [Updated 06/03/12 : key URL has changed. Old location : http://packages.vmware.com/tools/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-KEY.pub)] Now, you need to create the repository file located in /etc/yum.repos.d : vi /etc/yum.repos.d/vmware-tools.repo And then, paste the… Read More »
Here are the few steps to generate the private key, certificate signed request, self-signed certificate and how to get rid of the passphrase request when starting you’re application . Okay, let’s start. Go to the directory you want to store you’re certificate stuff. This example will assume you’re common name (aka : host name) will… Read More »
Get this error running “wget” on FreeBSD 8.2? /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libz.so.6” not found, required by “wget” Simply go to the library directory and create a symbolic link like this to get it working : cd /usr/lib/ ln -s libz.so libz.so.6
First, avoid any problem by getting two identical hard drive (or at least, same size and speed at least if not from same manufacturer). This tutorial assume both your hard disk are “da0” and “da1“. If you don’t know you’re devices name, simply use “dmesg” or “df -h” command to find out. First, let’s temporary… Read More »