X728 kit for Raspberry Pi 4
As part of my small project of movng my Z-Wave Hub to a Raspberry PI, I got an X728 kit. This has: UPS controller board RTC circuit ...
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nginx's auth_request_module howto
This article tries to supplement the nginx documentations regarding the auth_request module and how to configure it. In my opinion, that documentation is a bit incomplete. What is the nginx's auth_request module The documentation for this module says, it implements client ...
Secure erase of disc drives
This article is about erasing disc drives securely. Specially for SSD drives, writing zeros or random data to discs is not good enough and counterproductive. One way to do secure erase (for disposal) is to begin with an encrypted disc. However, after the fact the following options are possible: ATA Secure Erase ...
Windows Account Lockouts
To prevent windows lockouts the following can be done: Delete Internet Explorer browsing history Run the following: Open Start --> Search filed--> Type in Run --> rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr --> Delete ...
3 Open Source Password Managers
Keep your data and accounts safe by using a secure open source password manager to store unique, complex passwords. Maintaining complex, unique passwords for each site and service you use is among the most common pieces of advice that security professionals provide to the public every year. Yet no matter how many times it is said, it seems like a week doesn't ...
OpenShift notes
THIS IS FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES. THIS IS OUT-OF-DATE backup OpenShift openshift getenv(USER) from OpenShift php ssh to {user}@{app-domain} gear snapshot > file Run gear app OpenShift migration further notes ...
Deploying Kerberos based SSO
This article goes over how to implement Single-Sign-On on Linux. It goes over the integration around the Kerberos service and the applications, like for example FireFox. Pre-requisites ...
Web Links
Here a few web-links to interesting web apps. It covers stuff about password security and checking if web sites are down, etc etc. Down For Everyone or Just Me: If you're getting an error when visiting a certain site, it could be down or something could be wrong on your end. To see which ...
Kerberos Client
This simple mini how-to goes over the configuration of a linux system so it can use a Kerberos Realm server for authentication. Make sure you have the pam_krb5 rpm files installed. You can check this by running the rpm -qa | grep pam command and seeing whether the pam_krb5 rpm files are listed. If they aren't, you can typically download them in an update of the Linux or Unix operating system that you are running. ...
Driving Continuous Integration from Git
Testing, code coverage, style enforcement are all check-in and merge requirements that can be automated and driven from Git. If you're among the rising number of Git users out there, you're in luck: You can automate pieces of your development workflow with Git hooks. Hooks are a native Git mechanism for firing off custom scripts before or after certain operations such as commit, merge, applypatch, ...
Running Windows on Linux for Free
Microsoft is now making available Windows VM image for testing Internet Explorer for free. You can find them at: Modern IE testing Currently the following versions are available: Windows XP Professional SP3 + IE 6 or 8 Windows Vista + IE 7 Windows 7 + IE 8, 9, 10 or 11 Windows 8 + IE 11 ...
OpenWRT web
Some useful tidbits to use when using the OpenWRT embedded web server (uHTTPD). Embedded Lua uHTTPd supports running Lua in-process, which can speed up Lua CGI scripts. It is unclear whether LuCI supports running in this embedded interpreter. LuCI seems to work fine (if not better) with the embedded ...
Remote Bridging
Sometimes we need to connect two or more geographically distrubuted ethernet networks to one broadcast domain. There can be two different office networks of some company which uses smb protocol partially based on broadcast network messages. Another example of such situation is computer cafes: a couple of computer cafes can provide to users more convinient environment forr playing multiplayer computer games without dedicated servers. Both sample networks in this article need to have one *nix server for bridging. Our networks can be connected by any possible hardware that provides IP connection between them. Connecting Two Remote Local Networks With Transparent Bridging Technique Short description In described configuration we are connecting two remote LANs to make them appearing as one network with 192.168.1.0/24 address space (however physically, presense of bridges in network configuration is not affecting IP protocol and is fully transparent for it, so you can freely select any address space). Both of the bridging servers has two network interfaces: one (as eth0 in our example) connested to the LAN, and second (eth1) is being used as transport to connect networks. When ethernet tunnel between gateways in both networks will be bringed up we will connect tunnel interfaces with appropriate LAN interfaces with bridge interfaces. Schematically this configuration can be following: +-------+ +-------+ | br0 | | br0 | ...
Native Kerberos Authentication with SSH
This article is about integrating OpenSSH in a kerberos environment. Allthough OpenSSH can provide passwordless logins (through Public/Private keys), it is not a true SSO set-up. This article makes use of Kerberos TGT service to implement a true SSO configuration for OpenSSH. Pre-requisites First off, you'll need to make sure that the OpenSSH server's Kerberos configuration (in /etc/krb5.conf) is correct and works, and that the server's keytab (typically /etc/krb5.keytab) contains an entry for host/fqdn@REALM (case-sensitive). I won't go into details on how this is done again; instead, I'll refer you to any one of the recent Kerberos-related articles (like this one, this one, or even this one). Just be sure that you can issue a kinit -k host/fqdn@REALM and get back a Kerberos ticket without having specify a password. (This tells you that the keytab is working as expected.) ...
Kerberos howtos
Kerberos is a network authentication protocol which works on the basis of "tickets" to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. (Source Kerberos_(protocol) ) Backups Create backup: ...
Git recipes
A collection of small useful recipes for using with Git. Rewriting history Rolling back the last commit if nobody has pulled your remote repo yet, you can change your branch HEAD and force push it to said remote repo: git reset --hard HEAD^ git push -f ...
Automatically adding systems to an AD domain
When using virtualisation it is very common to create template VMs that can be cloned from. This makes deployment much easier than having to install a new VM from scratch. Unfortunately, the cloned VMs lack any Active Directory memberships and the VMs have to be manually added to the AD domain. For automated deployment scenarios this is less than desirable. This recipe intends to solve that issue in a ...
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