RHEL and Ubuntu systems leverage the ipa-client software to easily enrolled them to a Redhat IdM system. Unfortunately SLES12 lacks the required packages. Nevertheless, SLES12 systems can be enrolled manually. This article is about how to achieve this. Why using IPA for SLES systems? Most organizations are not pure RHEL or pure SLES shops, the reality shows a heterogeneous mix of Linux distributions in corporate data centers. It makes sense to use the same authentication and authorization system to manage ….Read More
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Audit your systems for security compliance with OpenSCAP
Introduction to (Open)SCAP SCAP stands for Security Content Automation Protocol. It is an open standard which defines methods for security policy compliance, vulnerability management and measurement etc. This article focuses on the operating system compliance part of SCAP. It comes originally from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide a way for US government agencies to audit its systems for regulatory compliance. OpenSCAP is a NIST validated open source implementation of SCAP. Why should I make ….Read More
Cross distribution system management with Spacewalk
In a perfect world, all systems in a data centre are running the same Linux operating system, a homogeneous system landscape. In real life things are working differently. Windows systems are out of focus in this post, lets concentrate on Linux systems. Most companies with a large Linux base are either RHEL shops or using SLES. A lot of RHEL users have some SLES systems running and so are SLES users running some RHEL systems. Some companies have additional systems ….Read More
SUSE Manager based on Fedora Spacewalk
SUSE announced the availability of SUSE manager. Having a closer look to it, one recognizes it is based on Fedora Spacewalk. It is a clone of the Red Hat Satellite. A few weeks ago I was puzzled to see a post on the spacewalk-devel mailing list. SUSE was contributing some code. What the heck? Now it is clear, they are using Spacewalk as there source for its own product. Spacewalk is no longer just the upstream of RHN Satellite, but ….Read More
Rumors about Novell and Suse Linux
There have been a lot of rumors that Novell will be sold. Latest rumors are that the Linux parts of Novell (former SuSE) will be split off and sold separately. Since that got public, there are even more rumors: Which company will buy the Linux part of Novell? Red Hat: Very unlikely, since the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in the EU and USA will most likely disagree because RHEL and SLES are already some kind of “duopoly”. Microsoft: No way ….Read More