Ghost your Suse installation with dd

Posted on June 13th, 2008 in OpenSuse by admin
While in the process of creating SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop or Server systems for customers I often have a need to create an image of a system so that when I mess up, I can at least get back to a working state. Listed below are the steps to creating an image and then deploying that same image using dd.

Install OpenSuse Tutorial in Video

Posted on April 10th, 2008 in Basics, OpenSuse by admin

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Securing Your Server With AppArmor

Posted on April 7th, 2008 in Applications, OpenSuse, Security by admin

If you want to secure your server using AppArmor, you have to create and modify the profiles for all the applications you use. This can easily be done using the YaST AppArmor modules or the command-line tools.

The YaST modules are more or less self-explaining, but more for mouse users.

Therefore I’ll explain the command-line tools a bit. I’ll also explain some AppArmor basics when needed.

Of course these instructions are also valid if you use your computer as a workstation

Mount your NTFS Filesystem/Partition for Read/Write Access in openSUSE 10.x

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in Hardware, OpenSuse by admin

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I found much advice on mounting NTFS partitions, anecdotal, fragmented, mostly good advice in the major Suse community support forums. But I was confused by the diversity. And some advice was problematic. Here is a consolidation.

Access to Windows Shares in openSuse 10.3

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in Networking, OpenSuse by admin

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You want to be able to access shared folders on Windows machines from your Linux system? Then this tutorial is for you:

Change the default theme in Yast to Oxygen (KDE4) icons

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in OpenSuse, Tweaks by admin

cb400f over at kde-look.org has put together a nice way to have KDE4’s Oxygen icons in your Yast package manager for OpenSuse 10.3.  Even better it’s done with one click install files.

Set The Refresh Period For Yast Package Manager

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in OpenSuse by admin

> your-favorite-text-editor /etc/zypp/zypp.confFind the line that states:

repo.refresh.delay = 0

and change it to whatever value you like.  The value is measured in minutes.  If you don’t want it to refresh for a day, a value of 1440 would work

Turning off Auto-login in Suse 10.3

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in OpenSuse, Security by admin

If you don’t change the default on the install, opensuse elects to auto-login.  This creates a security concern if your machine is directly accessible to others.  After playing around with different options I finally figured it out.

  1. Run Yast (or in this case Yast2).
  2. You will be prompted to enter the root password. Enter the password.
  3. Go to Security and User.
  4. Click on the User Management.
  5. Click on Expert Option and select Login Settings.
  6. Uncheck the auto login and press OK.
  7. Press Finish.

This should make auto-login go away.

How to install .src.rpm packages in openSuse

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in OpenSuse by admin

 This tutorial will cover the basics on how to install a .src.rpm package in OpenSuse. This applies to any SuSE version, and actually also to other distros (except step 5) as well.

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RPM Cheat Sheet

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in Basics, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuse, Redhat by admin

The following will help many navigate through the RPM system:

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