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    RHEL 8 and /var protection

    Matthew, Yes, I've a backup but as only /var and below folders were affected I was looking for a faster way (than restore). And it's a test server. What my collegaue did (and I) I did put in my post. So no chmod -R .* regards, Ivan
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    RHEL 8 and /var protection

    Hi, A colleague did a chmod -R 777 /var on de RHEL 8 server. Is there a fast way to restore the settings without restoring the server? I took a similar (similar OS wise) server an did a find /var -type f -exec stat --format 'chmod %a %n' {} \; >/tmp/restore_prots_files.sh find /var -type d...
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    Oracle Linux 9 & cve's

    Hi, I've updated my Oracle Linux 9 and it has the latest uek kernel (5.15.0-202.135.2) but I did a seccurity scan and it reported this CVE's kernel-uek-modules CVE-2023-45871 oracle conmon CVE-2023-44487 CVE-2023-39325 But I've checked and have the latest versions...
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    Oracle linux 7.9 CVE-2022-2602

    Hi, I've a Oracle Linux 7.9 machine with the latest patches (yum update) but our security scan solution sees a vulnerability in the kernel-uek: CVE-2022-2602 The kernel version is 5.4.17-2136.307.3.6.el7uek.x86_64 but the previous two kernel-uek are still on the system (yum installonly_limit=3)...
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    net-snmp on Oracle Linux

    Hi, I've several linux servers, most of the Oracle Linux (OL) 7. OL is Red-Hat clone. And I'm setting up snmpv3 to monitor the servers and therefore I use: net-snmp-create-v3-user -ro -a MD5 -A "xxxx" -x AES -X "yyyy" snmpuser My question is: what is the maximum length of xxxx and yyyy? I've...
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    setcap and openjdk

    Hi, I'm using setcap to enable java (openjdk) to bind port 443. So with setcap I can avoid using a privileged (root/wheel) account/group. And it works great but after a yum update openjdk is most of the time updated also and that breaks my setcap settings because setcap has to be set on the...
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