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Configuring the user environment and services on HP/UX 11i v1 (part 3) 

System environment and daemons 

Do not forget to check and fix your umask, just in case. 

umask

umask 022

Enable the Korn Shell and use it for root's shell, 

cd /etc/

cat >> shells <<EOF9

/bin/ksh

EOF9

chsh root /bin/ksh

Eventually give a home to the root user, 

cd /

ls -ld root/

mkdir -p root/

cd /etc/

vi passwd

change, 

root:...:0:3::/root:/bin/ksh

apply immediately, 

export HOME=/root

cd ~/

ln -s ../.profile .profile

Note. The full file name is needed for the target symlink on 11i v1. 

Fix the file mode creation mask 

cd ~/

cat >> .profile <<EOF9

umask 022

w

EOF9

tail .profile

You should now have a nice KSH environment (vi mode by default). I would love to make ksh the default shell when creating users but eventhough the -D argument exists for useradd on 11i v1, it cannot be used togeather with -s. 

Eventually create some system administration user (secondary group root) to log who's connecting through Telnet (by default), RSH (by default) or SSH, 

  useradd -m -s /bin/ksh -G root adminuser 

  passwd adminuser 

then clean up the skeletons so that new users get an empty directory (e.g. for FTP), 

cd /etc/

ls -l skel/

mv skel/ skel.dist/

Note. HP/UX fortunately won't warn about the non-existant skel folder when creating a user directory, that's nice ! 

Configure syslog for a server with no heavy load, 

cd /etc/

mv -i syslog.conf syslog.conf.dist

vi syslog.conf

like, 

*.info  /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

*.emerg  *

fix the file permissions 

cd /var/adm/syslog/

ls -l syslog.log

chmod 440 syslog.log

ls -l syslog.log

and apply, 

/sbin/init.d/syslogd stop

/sbin/init.d/syslogd start

Eventually synchronize the time, 

  ntpdate -u ntp.obspm.fr 

Note. "ntpdate" is included in the default system. 

Note. Change the ntp server address accordingly. 

Eventually add the rc.local feature to the system, 

cd /sbin/

cp -i rc rc.dist

cat >> rc <<EOF9

/sbin/sh /sbin/rc.local

EOF9

tail rc

touch rc.local

Note. I am placing it in /sbin/ instead of /etc/, just like the rest of the HP/UX rc scripts.