Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 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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Tenable su+sudo and selinux
My Not-A-Sysadmin-Boss wants me to explain this but I can't really find an answer? When using TENABLE SC to scan a RHEL7 system the account used to do the scan connects via ssh then uses sudo to perform its checks. But when selinux is enforcing…

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How to fix these vulnerability "" (CVE-2020-2781) ** Upgrade IBM Java to version 7.0.10.65 "" in rhel 7 server
I got this type of vulnerabilities on a rhel server after scan "(CVE-2020-2781) ** Upgrade IBM Java to version 7.0.10.65 Download and apply the upgrade from: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/""
Can I fix this vulnerability by install or…

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Switching from self-signed certificates to commerical TLS/SSL cert: will it work the way I expect?
New to the world of commercial certs, thanks in advance for any advice/guidance.
Our only outbound service is email, hosted on MS Exchange 2016 (2019 in medium-term future).
Internally we have several services with browser interfaces. Most of these…

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Logging to /var/log/messages stopped. How to turn it back on?
while frantically trying to resolve a time sync issue, I somehow must have turned off some (but not all journalling). /var/log/messages ends last eventing, and journalctl -eu chronyd doesn't show any new entries althogh the service is running. This…

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Sendmail not relaying to 127.0.0.1:25 instead of smart host
I am trying to use a SMART_HOST on RHEL7 with sendmail. I have configured sendmail.mc as follows:
define(`SMART_HOST', `my.relay.com')dnl
After compiling I have this line in sendmail.cf:
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS[my.relay.com]
So it…

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Copying files from remote, limited to 1k Lines and with compression
I want to fetch files from several remote machines. I want only files that match a specific regex and I want to keep the directory structure.
Considerations:
The files I want to fetch are plain text log files
There are probably many small files and…
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docker-proxy port 5000 not obeying firewall-cmd rules
I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9, where I'm trying to block docker-proxy TCP port 5000 via firewall-cmd. I am using the default public zone as the only active zone and have tried the following individually and in combination:
Removed port…

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Is there anything else like NFS on OEL8?
I want to share a volume from an OEL8 server to two other OEL8 servers and let them read/write to the volume simultaneously. I've been asked to check if there are anymore secure methods/technology in OEL other than an NFS shares. I thought about…

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ip route keep changing after network restart
Every time I restart the server or "systemctl restart network" I have to add the static routes
Rhel 7.8
ip route add 192.168.1.1 dev ens192 proto static scope link metric 100
ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 dev ens192 proto kernel scope link src…

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needs-restarting hangs on RHEL7
On RHEL7, running the command (as sudo) needs-restarting hangs, as does needs-restarting -s while needs-restarting -r comes back within 2 seconds. By "hangs" I mean that it takes a really long time and eventually my SSH session times out. This was…

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OpenFire restart runs setup process again and again
I am new to OpenFire and I am using the version 3.9.3
The problem is that every time I restart OpenFire, I must go through the same setup process. In my case, I would like not to go through it every time I reboot the service.
This is how…
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Red Hat 7 reset password asks for for Root password
I am trying to reset the root password on a rhel 7 machine
Following one of the many articles online
I first hit 'e' to get into edit mode
However after I do that is asks for a username and password?
What am I doing wrong?
I have tried putting in…

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Is it possible to control the system only from remote connection using VNC Server?
I have a Linux computer with VNC server running in it. When I connect to that computer remotely from another computer using a Remote Desktop Viewing application, the main computer display is still visible and any person can control it.
How can I…

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Problems applying subscription to RHEL 7.8
I have an account on access.redhat.com and hence downloaded RHEL 7.8 under Developer Edition. But after installing it on laptop, when I try to register the product it throws the following error:
HTTP error (401) unauthorized
BTW, my account details…

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AWS RHEL subscription Vs normal AWS subscription
On the new RHEL server on AWS, there is no need to subscribe our own red-hat subscrition to install the package as it's already subscribed by AWS side. I need to know the difference between the AWS RHEL server's redhat subscription and normal redhat…

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