Monthly Archives: June 2010

Windows autologon

23-Jun-2010 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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The only time I use Windows is as a virtual machine “appliance” ie it’s running some application that I have to run, that only runs on Windows. Often I want the VM to just logon automagically; here’s a registry file to do so. Save it as foo.reg and double click on it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="sonia"
"DefaultPassword"="secret"
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

No rocket science, I’m just blogging it so I don’t have to look it up again…

Solaris ps output truncated at 80 columns

10-Jun-2010 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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When running the ps command on Solaris, the output is truncated at 80 columns – really annoying when the command line to start up a process (typically a daemon) is really long. This has been annoying me for ages, and I finally found a (sort of) solution – use a different ps, and run as root:

# uname -a
SunOS fubar 5.9 Generic_118558-24 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2

# which ps
/usr/bin/ps

# /usr/ucb/ps auxwww 2> /dev/null | grep 22480
root     22480  0.0  0.1 1896 1232 ?        S 10:22:11  0:00 ptymonitor --oob-fd 49 --stderr-mode MUX
--pty --term screen --rows 47 --cols 177
--termios 38400:38400:3.1C.7F.15.4.FF.FF.11.13.1A.100.12.17.16.100.100.100.F:B40:E3B:544505:8
--ttlg --gid 0 --uid 0 --wait-time 60 bash --rcfile /home/fubar/deployment/bin/dotbashrc_install.sh

This can also be made to work for non-root users by granting the account the proc_owner privilege. For example, for the user fred:

/etc/security/prof_attr
Process Query:::Query Processes as Root:

/etc/security/exec_attr
Process Query:suser:cmd:::/usr/ucb/ps:privs=proc_owner;uid=0;euid=0;gid=0;egid=0

/etc/user_attr
fred::::type=normal;profiles=Process Query

passwd -e fred
/usr/bin/pfksh

cd ~fred
echo "export PS1='% '" >> .profile