UBC Physics & Astronomy
holst.phas.ubc.ca
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System Info

  • Motherboard: Intel DH67BL
  • BIOS Version: BLH6710H.86A.0122.2011.0601.1554
  • Processor:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
  • Memory: DDR3 1333 8GB
  • Hard Disk: 2 x 1TB SATA Blue HDD
  • Video: nVIDIA GeForce 210
  • Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Network Connection
  • MAC Address: 38:60:77:13:75:da
  • Optical Drive: DVD RW
  • Operating System: Fedora 16


    • Initial Setup
    Enable root login 
    su
cd /etc/pam.d
cp gdm gdm.bkp
vi gdm
Find and comment or remove this line:
auth required pam_succeed_if.so user!=root quiet
save and exit
cp gdm-password gdm-password.bkp
vi gdm-password
Find and comment or remove this line:
auth required pam_succeed_if.so user!=root quiet
save and exit
    Configure CUPS

    Make sure the following lines are in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file

    Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
BrowseRemoteProtocols CUPS
BrowseLocalProtocols
BrowsePoll print.phas.ubc.ca
    Add local user with particular uid 
    id -u phasaccount (login hyper find out the user's uid)
useradd -u uid phasaccount
    Modify /etc/fstab, add the following lines 
    #
ariel.phas.ubc.ca:/home           	/home             nfs     defaults      0 0
ariel.phas.ubc.ca:/export/astro_lnx  	/ASTRO            nfs     defaults      0 0
    Move local home directory 
    mv /home /lhome
mkdir /home
mkdir /ASTRO
vi /etc/passwd

    Change home in the passwd file to lhome

    Install nfs-utils 
    yum install nfs-utils
service rpcbind start
    Mount home and ASTRO 
    mount -a
    NFS Mount in fstab not mounted at boot 
    systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service
    Enable SSH 
    systemctl enable sshd.service
systemctl start sshd.service
system-config-firewall
Enable SSH, ICMP Echo Request, ICMP Echo Reply
    Login error

    Error Message:

    SELinux is preventing /bin/dbus-daemon from read access on the file
/lhome/beanjenn/.local/share/icc/edid-f9ebfc519dc215f92e65ac03bac714c6.icc.

    Solution:

    semanage fcontext -a -t icc_data_home_t '/lhome/beanjenn/.local/share/icc/edid-f9ebfc519dc215f92e65ac03bac714c6.icc'
restorecon -v '/lhome/beanjenn/.local/share/icc/edid-f9ebfc519dc215f92e65ac03bac714c6.icc'
or
restorecon -R -v /home

    For more assistance contact Ron Parachoniak, rap@phas.ubc.ca
     
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