OpenTofu
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Articles posted on 2024
Inetd like service with systemd
This is an example of a socket-activated per-connection service (which is usually referred to as inetd-like service). A thorough explanation can be found at 0pointer.de. Define a socket unit The key point here is to specify Accept=yes, which will make the socket accept connections (behaving like inetd) and pass ...
Locking down SFTP
This is a small recipe to increase the security around a SFTP interface. In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file include the following settings: Subsystem sftp internal-sftp This configures the sftp subsystem to use the internal sftp implementation. This is because inside the chroot, we usually will not have the normal ...
Python GUI
After looking a multiple options of GUI programming under python I eventually settled for tkinter. The main reason was that tkinter is very ubiquitous and initially though the learning curve wuld have shorter as I was very used to GUI programming using TCL/TK. Turned out that what I known TCL/TK did not translate ...
cisco bridging
This article is here as a reminder. So, for testing, I needed to configure a Cisco CSR1000V virtual router as a bridge. So I used a version 16 Cisco IOS XE image. To make my life easier I used the "wizard" that runs the first time to automatically configure bridgning. Ironically, this created an invalid ...
Tunneling NFS over SSH
This recipe is for tunneling NFS traffic over SSH. This adds encryption and Public Key authentication to otherwise insecure NFS traffic. For this recipe to work, requires NFSv4. Earlier versions were not tested, but I expect not all the functionality to work. server configuration ...
Optimizing shell scripts
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Happy New Year 2024
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