Many security audits and checklists like the ones supplied by CIS or DISA STIG require locking user accounts after a number of unsuccessful login attempts. In Linux, this is usually achieved by using faillock / pam_faillock.so. Using PAM PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is the flexible framework in modern Linux to customize the authentication and login […]
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Database 19c Certified for Oracle Linux 9 – Preinstall Package Available
Oracle Database 19c is certified for Oracle Linux 9 now (minimum requirement RU19.19). The Oracle Database preinstall package in its initial version is also available on the public Oracle yum server, in the AppStream Repo. https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/appstream/x86_64/getPackage/oracle-database-preinstall-19c-1.0-1.el9.x86_64.rpm […]
Oracle Enterprise Linux 7: How to stop bash tab completion from escaping the dollar $
Did you ever wonder why bash in Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other recent Linuxes escapes the dollar sign ($) when completing paths with the tabulator (tab) key like that: [oracle@oratest01 ~]$ (KLM12102) ls -l \$ORACLE_BASE/diag Answer In bash >= 4.2.29 you have a “direxpand” option, which is NOT set by default. The […]
How to disable Oracle ACFS drivers / registry resource
Sometimes an installed ACFS can cause trouble, especially if we don’t or can’t use it (e.g. when not using an UEK Linux kernel, like with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES). There’s lots of documentation how to create and maintain ACFS file systems, but how to get rid of ACFS at all wasn’t so easy to […]
Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2015
Last weekend, I had the chance to attend the Linux Days Chemnitz. It’s an annual meeting of the German Linux family with roundabout 2,500 attendees and a FANTASTIC atmosphere. It was two days of hearing tech talks, enjoying rich nerd content and talkin’ shop. […]
Oracle on Linux: How to hide your password when using a wrapper script
Sometimes, a DBA has to write an externally called wrapper script for various Oracle-supplied commands accepting password inputs. A prominent and simple example is SQL*plus (sqlplus). The Problem The process list shows all parameters of a command that’s currently executed. wrapper1.sh Accepts all connection infos on the command line: #!/bin/bash cmdstring=”sqlplus ${1}/${2}@${3}” echo “Executed command: […]
Oracle Clusterware root.sh issue: USM driver install actions failed (oracleoks.ko)
As I already said in my last post about “Can’t install ohasd service“, setting up Oracle Clusterware 11.2.0.4 on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) SP2 should work flawlessly, but sometimes it does not. 🙂 This time, it was about the USM drivers. USM driver install actions failed /u01/app/grid/11.2.0/perl/bin/perl -I/u01/app/grid/11.2.0/perl/lib -I/u01/app/grid/11.2.0/crs/install /u01/app/grid/11.2.0/crs/install/rootcrs.pl execution failed USM drivers […]
Oracle 12c: Change hostname for Grid Infrastructure / Oracle restart
Few days ago, we cloned a VM test system with ASM. Changing the hostname in this case is mandatory from our network, we have lots of issues if they are duplicate. But changing an Oracle Restart or generally, Grid Infrastructure setup’s hostname isn’t so easy – it’s written many configs. The only way is to […]
Oracle: RHEL6 and Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 certified for Database 11.2.0.3
Hi Linux-DBAs, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 are now certified for Oracle Database 11.2.0.3. Please see this link: https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&id=1441282.1&type=NOT Best regards Martin […]
Native ZFS for Linux
After long-aking FUSE implemented ZFS on Linux, Lawrence Livermore Labs have released a reimplemented ZFS for native use with a Linux Kernel. See details here: http://github.com/behlendorf/zfs Still have to test it, but I’d daresay, it was time. Good pooling Martin […]