Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market. It is used for both servers and desktops. Although the binaries are not freely available, the sources are, and so there are numerous projects which provide compatible rebuilds of RHEL, such as CentOS and Scientific Linux.
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users to connect SFTP server with openssh key
I want to be able to allow users to connect to my SFTP server with openssh key which I generated in keygen. How would I accomplish this?

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Transaction Check Error: file from install of oraclelinux-release-6:6Server-3.0.2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
I am trying downgrade oracle linux 6.7 to 6.6
[root@xxxx ~]# yum downgrade redhat-release
I am getting an error that "Transaction Check Error: file /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY from install of oraclelinux-release-6:6Server-3.0.2.x86_64 conflicts…

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net-snmp change default port 161 to something else
Ports 161/162 are in use by a java software, so the requirement is to use 163 for net-snmp
[root@testSRV snmp]# netstat -apn | grep 162
udp 0 0 ::ffff:10.145.1.10:162 :::* 2827/java …

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ssh authentication doesnt allow public key
I'm having a problem with the authentication of SSH on one of our test servers. I have configured the sshd_config correctly yet the Authentication method shows only password auth.
[root@[client] ~]# ssh -v [server]
OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL…

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tshark packet capture performance CentOS 6 v CentOS 7
I am attempting to capture approx 20mbit/sec worth of traffic continuously with tshark. If I capture packets with tshark on CentOS 6.5 I get around 4% to 66% packets dropped. If I do the same thing on CentOS 7 it never reports any dropped packets.…

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sssd using remote ad servers instead of local ad servers
I am using sssd to join Redhat servers to a windows server 2008 r2 domain. Most of the time things work fine but I have noticed that sssd is trying to reach remote domain servers instead of being aware of the local domain servers and just using them…

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Can't reach outside of network boundary without NetworkManager
This is more a sanity check than anything...
Using RHEL 6.6
So, we had a machine that was taken off the network during some upgrades.
In that time I must have decided to switch it from using NetworkManager to going completely by the old timey way…

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Error: Package: libmodule-10.0.0.1826-b10_0_0_1826.x86_64 (installed)
I am getting the following messages when running yum update on my RHEL 6 server. I have tried searching on the libmodule-10.0.0.1826-b10_0_0_1826.x86_64 package and dependencies but can't find a solution.
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin,…

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How do I find out what the latest version of a package is for a given version of RHEL?
When working with for instance Ubuntu, I'm used to being able to look up which version of a given package is available for a given version of Ubuntu Server on launchpad.net/ubuntu.
Is there a similar resource for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
I have…

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How do I run TomEE as a service on RHEL6?
cat /etc/passwd (last line):
tomee:x:990:987::/home/tomee:/bin/false
I need to make an init.d script to run Tomcat EE like service tomee start.
So I have 2 problems:
How I can execute command (from root) as a tomee user (no bash login) ?
sudo su -…

user3070377
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Can't connect to MySQL 5.5 with SSL
I am trying to get MySQL SSL replication setup for two brand new RHEL 6.6 x64 servers. I have replication working without SSL, but I can't get it set up with SSL, and can't connect directly using SSL either. I have tried connecting from both the…

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bash script doesn't run properly in crontab but runs fine manually
I wrote a small script to determine the average IOPs per hour in which I later manually convert to a graph and spreadsheet for management to discuss a potential SAN upgrade for an upcoming expansion project. The system running is currently a…

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ls hangs on NAS mount point
Frequently we are running into this problem.
our NAS mount points works perfectly and all of sudden it hangs.
when we go and do ls hangs the terminal.
strace ls /srv/git
hangs here
unmap(0x7f6a5c03f000, 4096) = 0
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Linux VMWare Tools build for running kernel or latest installed kernel?
I haven't been able to find any information regarding when building VMWare Tools on Linux whether it builds against the currently running kernel or the latest installed kernel.
To clarify (hopefully): If I have a VM running RHEL 6 running kernel…

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Check if account is allowed when using pam_access
I'm using pam_access and /etc/security/access.conf to restrict who can login to my Rhel 6.5 hosts.
I have an LDAP server with a diverse user base, and the security people would like a list of who can login to what.
I need a sciptable way to check if…

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