Solaris




Grab bag of IPF firewall commands for FreeBSD and Solaris 10

Nothing new here , just a round-up of the commands/configs I happen to need from time to time. Google probably has better references for that.I talk about Pf firewall used in FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris systems. Enable and disable firewall: pfctl –e Enable packet filter real time pfctl –ef …



Solaris interfaces – create assign delete

Working with interfaces in Solaris is pretty much the same as in Linux - you've got ifconfig, netstat,route. It looks in output a bit different but if you're used to the *BSD way of things you'll find yourself at home. So the most basic thing follows - bring interface up, assign …



Configure VLAN Solaris way

To create VLAN in Solaris you have to first decide where the Physical Point of Attachment (PPA) will be. In other words you have to attach VLAN to some physical interface on the server , as of now interface types that support VLANs are: - ce - bge - xge - e1000g After you decided …



md5 and sha1 hashing in Solaris

How do you calculate md5 hash ? md5sum of course, I thought ,coming from the Linux world and was wrong. In Solaris , again, all that comes from the open source projects is add-at-your-own-risk paradigm. Instead, the native crypto provider supplies hash calculations with the digest command: # digest -l sha1 md5 sha256 …



Encrypting local files in Solaris

How do I encrypt local file in Solaris ? On Linux I use either OpenSSL or GPG but these are both open source projects not native in the Solaris land. For this Solaris has encrypt/decrypt tools which do what their name say. And of course we talk here about symmetric …



Solaris – configure ftp server

SUN Solaris FTP SUN Solaris comes with ftp daemon based on WU-FTPd Washington University project. While not being very enthusiastic about its vulnerabilities discovered over the years and being rather abandoned by its developers ,still, it comes installed by default and as long as Sun ok with that it is …