If you are hosting a Piwik Web Analytics installation on your Linux server, than you may find it useful to automate the update using a bash script. While Piwik is capable of doing a web based update, we strongly believe in the principle of least privilege. Using this principle ensures tight security, however this comes… Read More
In this tutorial I will show you how to roll your own custom OpenVPN client installer using NSIS. The installer will include the Better OpenVPN GUI Client and is based on OpenVPN 2.4.5 which features the ability to run OpenVPN GUI without administrative privileges. The new OpenVPN GUI features are documented here. Click here for… Read More
If you have spent any time managing a Linux server from a Windows machine, than chances are you are aware of the limitations to this setup. Copying files to the server with non-root access can be a chore to say the least. The following tutorial has been tested on Debian 8 and Ubuntu 16.04. In… Read More
If you have been using WordPress for any amount of time, you may have found user profile management to be a bit lacking in terms of configuration. Most installations I have come across have either a membership plugin or a plugin that extends the user profile to collect more information. Regardless, from time to time… Read More
Bash completion is a useful tool for completion of file paths, commands etc. By default it is enabled on Ubuntu but not on Devuan Server. Chances are, if you have been using Ubuntu like me, you will dearly miss bash completion on Devuan. With this simple step below, bash completion can easily be enabled on… Read More
If you have ever used Ubuntu Server then you should be familiar with the dynamic MOTD. This is what is presented to the user in terminal when a log on occurs. This feature is very nice as it will give you a quick look at useful information. Unfortunately, Devuan Server does not include the dynamic… Read More
If you are using Hyper-V and testing a Devuan Jessie guest, you may not be aware that Microsoft provides Linux Integration Services (LIS), which are basically Microsoft’s version of VMware Tools. In this article we will detail how to enable LIS on our Devuan 1.0 Beta virtual machine. The first step is to edit the… Read More
If you have ever done work with the Government or Military, then you know all too well that in order to access nearly any Government website you need a CAC card. Beyond needing a CAC, your machine needs to have the DOD Root CA’s installed on it as well. Our previous article Custom DOD Cert… Read More
I like to call the method below “The Easy Devuan Server Firewall”. You may ask why I call it easy. The answer is simple, it uses standard IPTable’s and has a start and stop script to quickly disable it in the event that debugging is required. Installing the firewall is a simple two stage process…. Read More
CloneDeploy is a free open source solution for computer cloning / imaging. It most closely resembles an alternative for Symantec Ghost Solution Suite™ or Acronis Snap Deploy™. It supports imaging Windows XP through Windows 10, Linux, and OSX, using both Unicast and Multicast technologies. CloneDeploy was created to be used primarily in schools or small… Read More