Posts
All the articles I've posted.
PowerDNS and ISC DHCPD
Updated:As we host lots of sites we have lot's of DNS. Currently it's a database driven old version of ISC BIND. There are certain tasks we need to do manually to
Libc6 and OpenSSH
Updated:This morning was pretty much written off by some nasty occurrence I didn't pay attention to yesterday. Whilst trying to fix gimp with lots of apt manipulat
Raspbian & Realtek 8192eu Wifi - Revisited
STOP READING NOW IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE DISAPPOINTMENT. It's been a while since I originally wrote about the Raspbian & Realtek 8192eu WiFi USB Wifi adapter a
History to Timesheets
Updated:I'm not great at remembering what I did so I can include it on my time logger. I found I could trawl through my zsh history file to get an idea of what I'd
SMTP Ciphers
Updated:What ciphers are used by your smtp server? Well that's a question I got asked today. Take a look at this testssl.sh - it spawned a whole report about my SM
FreeRADIUS and Docker
Updated:Today I built a FreeRADIUS server within a Docker container set using docker-compose. As we only have a small number of users on the WiFi system it was set
Upgrading MySQL in a Container
Updated:Upgrading MySQL 5.5 to 5.7 in a docker container set caused me some trouble. Setting the tag to 5.7.30 was all well and good but when I fired up the contai
Apache Directory Studio and memberOf
Life got easier after I found this in Apache Directory Studio - edit your connection go to the "Browser Options" tab and tick the Features option at the bo
Central Logging
System logging should not remain a local activity. If you find your system has been compromised often the first thing in the attackers mind is to stop it f
Lynis Security Auditing
In the days of corporate lore I faced system hardening challenges driven by Nessus. Now because Nessus isn't FOSS (Free Open Source Software) it's not some