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Upgrading Solaris 11.3 to 11.4 – SSH
When you upgrade from Solaris 11.3 to Solaris 11.4 there are a lot of changes where SSH is one of them. Where Solaris 11.3 defaults to use SunSSH, Solaris 11.4 changed this to OpenSSH. In the environment I work with, some hardening was configured to disallow certain unsafe Ciphers and MACs. Therefor the directives were … [Read more…]
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Solaris 11.4 is GA
First of all, I would like to thank the Oracle Solaris team engineers for their tremendous effort they put in one of the best operating systems currently available in the world. On August 28, 2018 Oracle launched the new Solaris 11.4 release. The new software can be downloaded from https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/index.html Start getting by checking out the … [Read more…]
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Solaris Automatic Install without AI environment
To install Solaris automatically there is a less documented way besides an AI (Automated Installer) environment and/or the Distribution Constructor. You can install Solaris on bare metal just by specifying an installation manifest and system configuration profile. For SPARC this is even possible without a DHCP server but x86 does require one. The steps for … [Read more…]