Questions tagged [rhel8]

Enterprise Linux distribution released by Red Hat in 2019 and supported through 2029

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Expecting a password in the middle of script in RHEL

I want to copy files from another server it's expecting a password to copy... Where as sshpass is working in Ubuntu, but in RHEL is there a way to pass the password in the script.
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Issue with RHEL8/CentOS8 remote virt-viewer and firewalld

In our lab we have a RHEL8 server with developer subscription. On the machine we have a few VMs and some of them are on a private libvirt network, thus we can only access them via virt-viewer. We use various Fedora 32/33 to connect to the lab…
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is it possible to set default home-directory based on the users gidnumber?

I'm aware that I can change the general settings by running: ipa config-mod --homedirectory=/some/path what I would like to achieve is for IPA to change it to a different path based on the GID/GIDnumber of the user created, e.g: ipa user-add user10…
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Unable to open PHP script files, even though I own them and have permissions

I'm using RHEL 8, and I have run into a crazy problem. My user account is unable to open PHP files. If I have a file, owned by my user, and readable by my user, and I add
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How to restrict users switching from su command

How can I restrict users switching by su command? Suppose there are 3 users (root,user1 and user2) only root and user1 can switch by using su command. root or user1 should not be able to switch to user2 by using su command. root@instance# su - user1…
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Want to allow application to mount a drive using rhel 8

I can mount my drive using sudo mount.cifs ...... I can unmount doing sudo umount /mnt/mountpoint It was prompting me for a password, so I changed the sudoers file to NOPASSWD:ALL and now it does not prompt me. I have an application and I want to be…
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How best to connect a Windows 10 laptop to a RHEL 8 virtual machine?

I use a Windows 10 PC to log into and work on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 system every day. I have been using xpra to talk to it. Xpra dies every few minutes for a few seconds. Very irritating. I'm told that RHEL8 doesn't support xrdp. Yes, I…
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Unable to ssh (port 22) to Ubuntu 20.04 from RHEL8

I have a server running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The firewall (ufw) is disabled and it is accepting incoming ssh connections on port 22. I have a server running RHEL7 set up ages ago and it works fine with outgoing ssh towards the Ubuntu server. I am now…
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Oracle Linux 8 getting DHCP but DNS not updating

My Oracle Linux 7 boxes automatically get a DHCP address and then BIND9 DNS is updated successfully. I recently installed an Oracle Linux 8 box, and while it is successfully assigned a DHCP ip address, BIND9 DNS is not being updated causing…
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How to install pam_mount on RHEL 8?

I'm trying to install pam_mount on RHEL8 but keep getting this: rror: Problem: package pam_mount-2.16-10.el8.x86_64 requires hxtools, but none of the providers can be installed - conflicting requests - nothing provides perl(encoding) needed by…
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Unable to use YUM. RHEL 8.2 server hosted in Azure

I have a Red Hat server hosted in Azure and when I try to use yum to install software or do a system update I get the below error, Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rhui-rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rhui-rpms': Curl error (28): Timeout…
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Client machine unable to connect to the local ftp repository server. Writes an error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo '***', ignoring this repo

Please help me to understand where I was wrong, because I've read a lot of articles also I've seen lot's of Youtube videos, but all the time in the end I've got the same error result. So, on my Server machine (192.168.25.146) I've install from the…
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New to RHEL; Coming from Fedora; Different repo managers?

I'm coming from fedora. Just testing the waters in RHEL 8.2 None of my standard dnf packages are available. For instance: $ sudo dnf install powerline powerline-fonts [sudo] password for adamhanna: Updating Subscription Management…
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ImportError: No module named svn.core Python Traceback

I am working on the Setup of the Subversion server in one of my environments using RHEL 8 Apache 2.4 Subversion 1.10.6 Python 2.7 Viewvc 1.2.1 Apache & Subversion installation has been done successfully. Further I am trying to use the WebSVN as…
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Increasing ulimit open files not applied in RHEL 8.1

I have a fully-updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.1 x86_64 system where, as a local user in a local terminal (i.e. not remotely via SSH), when I run ulimit -Sn it says 1024 and ulimit -Hn yields 4096. I would like to increase those numbers…
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