System Configuration With Yast - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 08-05-2008 Installation Manual

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System Configuration with
YaST
In SUSE Linux Enterprise, YaST handles both the installation and configuration of
your system. This chapter describes the configuration of system components (hardware),
network access, and security settings, and administration of users. Find a short introduc-
tion to the text-based YaST interface in Section 8.12, "YaST in Text Mode" (page 185).
For a description of manual system configuration, see Section 20.3, "System Configu-
ration via /etc/sysconfig" (page 400).
Configure the system with YaST using various YaST modules. Depending on the
hardware platform and the installed software, there are different ways to access YaST
in the installed system.
In KDE or GNOME, start the YaST Control Center from the main menu. Before YaST
starts, you are prompted to enter the root password, because YaST needs system ad-
ministrator permissions to change the system files.
To start YaST from the command line, enter the commands su (for changing to the
user root) and yast2. To start the text version, enter yast instead of yast2. Also
use the command yast to start the program from one of the virtual consoles.
For hardware platforms that do not support a display device of their own and for remote
administration on other hosts, run YaST remotely. First, open a console on the host on
which to display YaST and enter the command
ssh -X root@<system-to-configure> to log in to the system to configure
as root and redirect the X server output to your terminal. Following the successful
SSH login, enter yast2 to start YaST in graphical mode.

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