BOLVERK – Tim's Dead Blog

I’m not generally the certification chasing type but I’ve needed a VCP to keep my career going the way I want it to.  I’ve also been attempting to gain more enterprise Linux experience.  I’ve decided to do some Red Hat training courses and take the exams.  I’ve succeed in passing both RHCT and RHCE exams!  I have Red Hat Certified Engineer number 805008649833712 on RHEL 5.

I’ve had to look this up far too many times to not document it now. For user with user_id 1, execute the following on MySQL.

UPDATE user SET user_password =
md5(CONCAT('1-',md5('newpassword'))) WHERE user_id = 1;

or this for Postgres.

UPDATE user SET user_password =
md5('1-' || md5('newpassword')) WHERE user_id = 1;

I’m just too damned excited. I’m going to the Installation and Configuration course for ESX 3 in Columbus, OH next month! When I pass the exams afterwards I’ll be the one and only VCP in my company.

Today, life is good.

On a not so related note, I published the iFolder VM I made on VMware’s site yesterday and my traffic increased to 52 Gig yesterday. 52 Gig would make it about 52 Gig more then my average.