I’ll leave the anatomy of a Debian package for Google-U Generating a package skeleton with dh_make Start by picking a package name, and a version you want you package to be. I’ll go with the class “foo” and “0.1”, but feel free to chose something more relevant: This will have created a debian/ subdirectory in[…]
Create a Bootable Windows 10 USB in Linux with CLI apps only Create a ntfs partition Find out the usb device name using the lsblk command or lsusb command or dmesg command: lsblk lsusb dmesg | more ## or use the grep command as follows ## dmesg | sort| uniq | grep -A 6 usb-storage[…]
This is geared toward Debian Jessie. INSTALL: sudo apt-get install nut EDIT: To /etc/nut/ups.conf add [belkin] driver = usbhid-ups port = auto A Belkin UPS is used connected via a USB cable. The label in brackets can be any unique identifier. It will be useful later. Some configurations call for ‘port’ to be /dev/ttyS0. This[…]
A client was concerned that their password hash was MD5. A check of the /etc/shadow file showed: user:$6$UAxaIY9I$hAkj … The first field annotated by a ‘$’ (: is the delimiter) is 6 = SHA256 (1 = MD5) And /etc/pam.d/common-password specifies it: password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure use_authtok try_first_pass[…]
A client specified external testing of a Debian distro with another distro’s FIPS module compiled in. This was pretty interesting. We tested to make sure SSH1 doesn’t work at all and SSH2 does with the following cyphers: aes128-ctr, aes192-ctr, aes256-ctr, aes128-cbc, 3des-cbc, aes192-cbc, aes256-cbc, [email protected] and the following keys: RSA, ECDSA, DSA
We’re becoming RHEL experts. This started when I wanted to install the terminator package. The terminator package is in the Extra Repositories for Enterprise Linux repository. Step 1: wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm Step 2: yum install epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm Step 3: yum repolist Step 3 above shows all the repos you have loaded and access to: Loaded plugins: ulninfo[…]
NFS client needs portmap service. Install nfs-comman package as follows to fix this problem: $ sudo apt-get install nfs-common
Use: This hides not just the Permission denied errors but all error messages.
Enable v3, disable v1 and v2c Need to use v3 only and disable v1 and v2c. In /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf delete or comment the community names that are used for v1 and v2c (for example): rocommunity public 127.0.0.1 Your default community names may not exactly be called “public” Restart the snmpd daemon. # /etc/init.d/snmpd restart Verify that[…]
This is a work in progress. Tasked with migrating from existing SNMP to v3