Sun Solaris

 

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System Administration

  1. Add A User
  2. Installation
  3. Patches
  4. Booting
  5. Swap
  6. NFS
  7. Commands
  8. fsflush

Network

  1. Overview
  2. Planning
  3. TCP/IP
  4. TCP/IP Services
  5. Routers
  6. Local Networking
  7. Logical Interfaces
  8. Multihomed Hosts
  9. Network Client
  10. Configuration Server
  11. Outgoing Mail
  12. Troubleshooting
  13. Change hostname

Links

  1. Sun Alert Patch Report

 

 

Add A User

To add a user:

useradd -d /some/directory/username -s /bin/ksh username
passwd username
mkdir /some/directory/username
chmod 755 /some/directory/username
chown username /some/directory/username

There is a script called /usr/local/bin/useradd.sh which will basically execute the above commands. Usage is:

/usr/local/bin/useradd.sh username

 

 

Install Sun Solaris 8

  1. Turn on the box
  2. Pop the CD into the drive
  3. At the "ok" prompt run "boot cdrom"
  4. Follow the prompts.
  5. Install any necessary patches