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01-16-2020 02:46 PM |
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Originally Posted by jlliagre
(Post 6078944)
By default, root is no more an account on Solaris 11. That's the reason why I asked.
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Sort of why I qualified that remark. Haven't touched Sol11. So it's RBAC or something like it for everything now? I'd like to see how that works.
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That's odd. Almost all production Solaris environment I saw since probably Solaris 2.5.1 (1996) had either NTP enabled or at least scheduled ntpdate in the early days.
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I've seen way too many instances of the Solaris admins having 'ntpdate' run but only at boot. The DEC UNIX clusters I inherited when starting a job many years ago were being administered by a Solaris admin and one (of many) Solaris-isms I had to mitigate was to set up NTP despite it being mentioned in the OS's system management documentation as darn near mandatory for stable cluster operation---and these clusters were anything but stable (not just because of not having NTP setup, though). Another site was doing the same darn thing: setting the clock once via 'ntpdate' by querying a router inside the company firewall. (We later found out that it was just having its clock set by someone's wrist watch upon power-up. Yikes!) Maybe I was just particularly aware of how clocks drift from having some work experience doing engineering work in time transfer---even expensive rubidium and much-more-expensive hydrogen maser clocks drift so you can imagine how much a crappy crystal oscillator inside a computer system drifts over time. It's nice to see it getting set up automatically on most Linux distributions now.
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