Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 3 October 2014 08:07, Cameron Seay cws...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: I know how to reset the root password on an x86 machine using single user mode. Is there a way to do that in Linux on VM? You can shutdown the guest and boot in single user mode by specifying the 1 on the kernel parameters:

Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Pavelka, Tomas
warm bodies authenticate with PKI using a central LDAP store for public keys Being curious, how do you deal with situations when LDAP is temporarily not available? Tomas -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 3 October 2014 08:33, Pavelka, Tomas tomas.pave...@ca.com wrote: warm bodies authenticate with PKI using a central LDAP store for public keys Being curious, how do you deal with situations when LDAP is temporarily not available? Would you want users to access your system when you can't

Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Nix, Robert P.
Just another comment on this: We¹ve used LDAP for user authentication for the past ten years, and never once has the service been unavailable. Our LDAP system runs two master servers and three replicants, with the clients talking to the replicants. These are spread across several data centers, and

Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 10/03/2014 at 02:34 EDT, Pavelka, Tomas tomas.pave...@ca.com wrote: Being curious, how do you deal with situations when LDAP is temporarily not available? The LDAP (or AD) server is down. We use LDAP (or AD) for everything except root. These are just phrases used to scare small

Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Pavelka, Tomas
Thanks everyone for the very insightful comments. Tomas -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 3 October 2014 15:37, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: And if all else fails, the procedures Rob described are at your disposal if you need to repair something (e.g. a bad LDAP configuration). And since someone mailed me about IPL of a rescue system - only if that makes you come

SuSE 12

2014-10-03 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Notice SuSE 12 files at sites for bash patches Is SuSE 12 available for zseries s390x? Or will be soon? Ann Smith This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary,

Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 10/03/2014 at 12:48 EDT, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: Some of this sounds like my aunt who has several copies of her key at interesting places outside in the yard, just in case she might forget hers and the 3 neighbours are all out of town at the same time... Hey. You

dasdfmt problem on RHEL 7

2014-10-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
A topic that has already been discussed but may be some more information. I have a minidisk 0200 that has been CMS formatted: [root@rh7cn1 ~]# cat /proc/dasd/devices : 0.0.0200(ECKD) at ( 94:16) is dasde : active at blocksize: 4096, 9 blocks, 351 MB I note it already appears to

Re: dasdfmt problem on RHEL 7

2014-10-03 Thread Mike Hammock
I suspect you have not updated to the latest version of zPDT yet Neale. There were several LRE CCW updates in the 47.16 driver. I strongly recommend you get it installed. Mike Hammock -- From: Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net Sent: Friday,

Re: dasdfmt problem on RHEL 7

2014-10-03 Thread Mark Post
On 10/3/2014 at 01:22 PM, Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net wrote: A topic that has already been discussed but may be some more information. I have a minidisk 0200 that has been CMS formatted: [root@rh7cn1 ~]# cat /proc/dasd/devices : 0.0.0200(ECKD) at ( 94:16) is dasde :

Re: SuSE 12

2014-10-03 Thread Mark Post
On 10/3/2014 at 12:58 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) ann.sm...@thehartford.com wrote: Notice SuSE 12 files at sites for bash patches Is SuSE 12 available for zseries s390x? Or will be soon? SLES12 is not yet GA, but will be relatively soon. Where were you seeing these files? Mark

Re: SuSE 12

2014-10-03 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7169.html lists a bunch of security advisories which my team mate was checking SUSE Security Advisories: *SUSE-SU-2014:1247-1, published Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:05:16 +0200 (CEST) *SUSE-SU-2014:1247-2, published Mon, 29 Sep 2014 21:04:16 +0200 (CEST)

Linux, NFS, and Windows shares

2014-10-03 Thread Ron Foster
Everyone, We have a Windows application that accesses files on Linux on system z. We= currently use Microsoft services for Unix. But we have found that Microsoft is dropping support for this product. And= we have to migrate to a newer operating system. So we need plan B. We have tried

Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
On one account I have a local id (which can sudo to root ) to use if the client processes to connect to the LDAP on active directory come down. It has not happened in production network in more than a year. But it is useful in DR network where the network is being redesigned by customer's

Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 10/03/2014 at 05:34 EDT, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) ann.sm...@thehartford.com wrote: But it is useful in DR network where the network is being redesigned by customer's network folks. The mainframe linux servers may be up before the LDAP servers are fully functional (at least

Re: SuSE 12

2014-10-03 Thread Mark Post
On 10/3/2014 at 05:07 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) ann.sm...@thehartford.com wrote: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7169.html lists a bunch of security advisories which my team mate was checking SUSE Security Advisories: *SUSE-SU-2014:1247-1, published Sun, 28 Sep

Re: Linux, NFS, and Windows shares

2014-10-03 Thread Mark Post
On 10/3/2014 at 05:29 PM, Ron Foster ron.fos...@baldor.abb.com wrote: Everyone, We have a Windows application that accesses files on Linux on system z. We= currently use Microsoft services for Unix. But we have found that Microsoft is dropping support for this product. And= we have

Re: Linux, NFS, and Windows shares

2014-10-03 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Mark you're in good company. I also agree with Mark's comments regarding Samba. Can you e-mail me off list a link to the statement that they are discontinuing support for Services for UNIX. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On

php on z/OS

2014-10-03 Thread Cameron Seay
Okay, I ,know this is not a VM question, but my IBM Main account is not working. I am on the Marist server and trying to run PHP on DB2 for z/OS. PHP is on the box, we know the directory for it and are putting it in our phpinfo.php test file. We can't get it to fire. Here is the phpinfo.php