Category Archives: User Administration

What kind of Unix Administrator are you?

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Hamdan

I’ve read this few years ago, and it made me laugh so hard. According to the article, there are three types of Unix Administrators: The technical thug, the administrative fascist, the maniac, and the idiot. If you worked with Unix … Continue reading →

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Linux and UNIX HOW-TO: Setup a basic OpenLDAP Client and Server

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Hamdan

The topic of LDAP seems to be little bit complicated at the beginning, so we will start with a simple example to for demonstration purposes. We will use two machines in this example: a client and a server, both running … Continue reading →

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Solaris HOW-TO: Change the locale

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Hamdan

To view the locale of a Solaris server, use the “locale” command: root@hamdan # locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE=”C” LC_NUMERIC=”C” LC_TIME=”C” LC_COLLATE=”C” LC_MONETARY=”C” LC_MESSAGES=”C” LC_ALL= root@hamdan # To change the locale, first you need to know the possible locale values, by issuing … Continue reading →

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