Friday 14 May 2010

Multiple User Login on Ubuntu

Problem with multiple users not able to log in to nodes on a cluster. The solution was to copy entries for particular user in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow on the head node to the files on the nodes /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Also created the users home directory on each node. This seems to have corrected the problem.

Defender 300tdi Lucas 10AS Alarm Immobiliser (Spider) Problems

We have a 1997 Landrover Defender 300tdi that has given immobiliser problems intermittently. I had initially fixed the fuel solenoid as we w...