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Change the Solaris telnet banner

 

The default banner displayed during a telnet login contains the Solaris version which can be useful to a potential attacker.

Create a plain text file called /etc/default/telnetd which contains a line such as:



BANNER="Unauthorized access prohibited\n\n"



The \n characters encode blank lines.

 

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Enable/configure FC-AL/SAN devices with cfgadm in Solaris
H3Solaris 9 requires some tinkering to play with SANs. This recipe describes the procedure./H3PNote: These steps are not required for Solaris 10 which includes everything you need to connect to a SAN, even to boot from it. If you cannot see your SAN from Solaris 10, check your connections a

Display Solaris system configuration with prtconf
H3The prtconf command is a valuable tool for determining the devices attached to a Solaris system. The total system memory is prominently displayed and the devices and peripherals attached to the system are displayed in a tree format./H3PAny user can run /usr/sbin/prtconf and without any optio

Solaris 10: Create multi-terabyte UFS filesystem
H3Solaris 10 supports UFS filesystems up to 16TB (with files up to 1TB in case you get carried away writing the great American novel). To do this, the newfs command needs to be modified when creating the filesystem./H3PCreating a multiterabyte filesystem (assuming you have a disk array with th

Get detailed Solaris memory information with prtdiag
H3A simple command will provide detailed information about the specific memory configuration of a Sun server, information such as the sizes and locations of memory banks. This can prevent cracking open the case and the associated downtime./H3PThe [b]prtdiag[b] command displays useful informat

Solaris: disk usage of all users on a filesystem
H3The quot command provides a quick measure of the disk usage of multple users on a filesystem./H3PThe span style="font weight: bold"quote/span command must be run as or with the privileges of root. Here is sample output for the quot command: br / br /div class="code"quot /usr br /