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Look at my VMware ESX Server CPU Resources.

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As you can see from graph above, my VMware ESX Server running for more than 85% - 97% of CPU resources.
Basically I have 2 VMware ESX 3.5 running on top of Dell R900, Intel Xeon E7330 @2.4 Ghz processor and 128 RAM on each [...]

Shit! I’m lost my SuSE Linux root password! I can’t remember what is my root password, I have tons of password inside my head and I can’t recall.
Don’t worry, If you’ve lost your root password, you might be able to do it this way. Let me explain “How to crack your root password on (SuSE) [...]

How to reset multiple users password on Linux?
Choose a new password using perl with crypt format
#perl -e ‘print crypt(”newpassword”, “salt”),”\n”‘
sal.HhR9nxBk6
Reset password for any userID larger than 499 with new default password “newpassword”
#for acc in $(awk -F: ‘{ if ($3 > 499) { print $1 }}’ /etc/passwd); do
usermod -p sal.HhR9nxBk6 $acc;
done
Reset password for [...]

In order to sync Linux user password and Samba user password, you have to configure PAM. Personally I’m using SLES9 for my testing environment and I have to configure /etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/sshd as following:
password required pam_smbpass.so nullok try_first_pass use_authtok
How to test?
Create a new user called testing
#useradd -m testing
Setup default password
#passwd testing
Create a new samba user
#smbpasswd [...]