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🇬🇧 Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 3

Okay, there is one remaining obvious question. What if you have an admin that is responsible for all the systems and you want to give her access to all the...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 2

As I wrote yesterday, there is an alternate way to configure zone console access. Let's assume we want to give the user junior the authorization to access the...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Zones Security Admin SMF

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 1

When you wanted to access the zone console on a Solaris system as a normal user in the past, you needed an authorization. You may remember from a very old...

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🇬🇧 Solaris ZFS Performance

Increasing ZFS pool sizes

I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it's one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS , of how ZFS...

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🇬🇧 Solaris SMF Admin

ptree with service names

A nice tool to get some understanding of the dependencies of processes is the ptree tool. With the -c option it shows the contract id (the contract filesystem...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Admin

newtask easier to use in scripts

newtask is an important tool when you start applications in a different project context, for example for resource control purposes. Maybe you remember my...

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