Tag: Linux

All the articles with the tag "Linux".

• Lynis Security Auditing

  29 May, 2020

  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

• Nginx Configuration Synchronisation

  Updated:25 May, 2020

  Back when I built the Nginx failovers using Nginx and Keepalived I also required that should the config change on the master then the config would automati

• Nginx and Keepalived

  Updated:25 May, 2020

  I have a need to deploy a High Availability Load Balanced reverse proxy solution. We have a back end web service that requires resilience. To achieve this

• SSH and SOCKS

  Updated:25 May, 2020

  Here's my handy script for bringing a socks proxy up and down. Saves the hassle of finding the PID of the ssh proxy process to kill it when you're done. so

• PAM_LDAP and uniqueMember

  Updated:24 May, 2020

  After upgrading the LDAP server so we could make use of some new features like olc and in particular memberOf I ran into a major issue. Where many programs

• SSH Multiplexing

  Updated:22 May, 2020

  Typically SSH creates a new tcp session for every time you connect to a remote host. But there is a feature of ssh that allows connections to reuse an exis

• Remotely Mounting a Fileshare

  Updated:19 May, 2020

  Working from home means making use of different technologies to connect to systems in the office. Not all of our file system are available over webdav, and

• SSH, OATH OTP and LDAP

  17 May, 2020

  I got myself into a bit of a knot with this one. We wanted multi-factor authentication setup on the main SSH gateway and that meant private key, password A

• SSH Authorized_Keys and LDAP

  16 May, 2020

  Traditionally we store public keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys , but this means pushing them around all the servers we want to connect to. Instead of doing t

• php 7.0 on Debian Buster

  Updated:15 May, 2020

  Actually this is more about any version of php (5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2) on buster. Php source has taken on a bit of a split and the standard repositories only deal with the one supported version for the current release of Debian you are using.