As you may or may not know, Microsoft’s original Secure Boot certificates, issued in 2011, begin expiring in late June 2026. Most Windows machines will receive these updated certificates automatically. It should be noted, in some cases where administrative update procedures, like WSUS, are in place you may find that this update will need to… Read More
Recently after installing a fresh new copy of Debian 11 (Bullseye), I found that root ssh access was set to without-password by default now. What that means to you is that if you are trying to ssh to your server with your root account and password, you will receive an access denied error. In order… Read More
So, you’ve got an old VideoEdge Server lying around? Why not turn it into an ESXi Server. The first thing you’re going to need to do is reset the password on the BIOS so that you can change the boot order. The easiest way to do this is to open the chassis and remove the… 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 2.4.8 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 read our previous article Easy Debian Server Firewall, then you may have noted that on Debian Buster the described method no longer works. This is due to systemd. In the article below we will walk through creating a persistent IPTables based firewall on Debian Stretch. First we need to install some required software… Read More
If you read our previous article Debian Stretch Dynamic MOTD, then you may be wondering how this can be accomplished on your fresh new Debian Buster setup. This is what is presented to the user in terminal when a log on occurs using our previous article. This feature is very nice as it will give… Read More
If you are running a vanilla install of Debian 10, you may know that the Linux Kernel version is 4.19 out of the box. While this kernel is certainly not old, if you are running on a newer laptop or netbook, you may want to go with a newer Kernel to support your hardware. In… Read More
Recently after installing a fresh new copy of Debian 10 (Buster), I found that root ssh access was set to without-password by default now. What that means to you is that if you are trying to ssh to your server with your root account and password, you will receive an access denied error. In order… Read More
With Samba4 becoming more relevant everyday as a drop in replacement for AD, I am regularly fielding questions regarding password management. Below I will describe the basics of password management on a QNAP NAS running Samba4 in Domain Controller Mode using the samba-tool. The following code shows the commands dealing with passwords and account expiration.
If you are hosting a Matomo Web Analytics installation on your Linux server, than you may find it useful to automate the update using a bash script. While Matomo 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