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Questions tagged [rhel8]
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How is setting the system-wide cryptographic policy for Java supposed to work?
When migrating a proprietary Java (and Jetty) based application from RHEL7 to RHEL8 I learned something new: At least with OpenJDK 11 the JVM still defaults to a 1024 bit Diffie-Hellman group unless one specifies the system property…

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Systemctl cannot access additional config files for httpd
I have a freshly set up RHEL 8.6 with httpd installed (yum install httpd). In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf additional configs are included on a mounted NFS share:
IncludeOptional /cat/soft/apache/test_80.conf
IncludeOptional…

Ralf L.
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Display custom message with getty@.service disabled
I have a CentOS 8 server running in a vm. I access this server only via ssh. Therefore I dont need the login prompt once server finishes booting up. Therefore I went ahead disabling getty@.service.
Now server boots fine. I can ssh to the…

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How to alter firewall (iptables) log rules such that they stop flooding the primary console on AlmaLinux 8?
I have a constant deluge of firewall blocks showing up on my console in AlmaLinux 8:
How do you modify iptables rules / settings so as to disable these from showing up on the primary console and to only render in log files?

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RHEL8 and GSSAPI Kerberos authenticate through Apache issue
I'm trying to run an apache virtualhost, on a machine currently running Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5 (Ootpa), with Kerberos authentication using the new GSSAPI module (replacement of mod_auth_kerb).
I also configured LDAP directives to…

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How to avoid ExecStop status in systemctl status
systemctl status command shows the ExecStop Failure message. Even though my service is up and running.
testDB.service - the testDB service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/testDB.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active…

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NFSv4 and kerberos: access denied 50% of the time
We are trying to mount NFSv4 shares on RHEL 8 clients, with kerberos. We have a very similar setup on another environment, and it worked fine. But on this setup, it happens that we get access denied around 50% of the times we try to mount a share:
#…

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RHEL 7 systemctl: Combine multiple services into one. start the service independently
I have followed the steps from RedHat to start the multiple services into one service.
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3097871
/etc/systemd/system/myapps.target
[Unit]
Description=App Service Unit
# This collection of apps should be started at…

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Is it possible to use https with a Tang Network Bound Disk Encryption server?
Is it possible to use https with a Tang Network Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE) server?
Redhat's documentation casually says this is possible, but I can't find any examples of this anywhere and the source code leaves me to believe otherwise.
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Enforce TLS1.2 in sssd client
In one of our environments Linux servers are set up with sssd / OpenLDAP for OS login.
To support older servers our OpenLDAP server has to support TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 still.
RedHat 8 does no longer support TLS levels below TLSv1.2, and thus the…

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How to install a specific version of PostgreSQL in Red Hat 8?
I'd like to install a specific version of PostgreSQL in RHEL 8 with dnf.
To achieve this I followed the PostgreSQL guide : https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
But actually I can only install the last version (12.9) not the 12.4 (the…

mishka
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IPSec iptables rules for local service
I have a StrongSwan IPSec remote access server running on RHEL and a client all on the same local network. I have a Samba server running on the same RHEL host that I want to be available through the VPN but not outside the tunnel. I can get the…

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Curl error (56) while trying to install Zabbix packages on RHEL 8
I followed the instructions here https://www.zabbix.com/download?zabbix=5.4&os_distribution=red_hat_enterprise_linux&os_version=8&db=mysql&ws=apache to install Zabbix 5.4 Mysql/Apache on my RHEL 8 server.
When i tried to install the package with…

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RHEL 8 Ansible playbooks not working with FIPS enabled
I have two sets of Linux VMs in a GCP (Google cloud) environment: Debian9 and RHEL8. The RHEL8 environment is FIPS-140 enabled, due to security/compliance requirements. None of our Ansible playbooks work with the FIPS-enabled RHEL VMs, but still…

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/etc/resolv.conf is missing after installation of RHEL 8
I have installed RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (minimal install) on my local server, and got some docker related issues.
Then I found that /etc/resolv.conf was missing.
After executing "systemctl reload NetworkManager", the file was made and docker…

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