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
If you read our previous article Easy Debian Server Firewall, then you may have noted that on Debian Stretch 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
Kopano Collaboration Platform is the email server of choice for our new customers. With that said, we have a lot of these installations being maintained in production. Below is our first generation automation script to update the Kopano WebApp to the latest 3.4.x release for users who are not using apt-get. Note this script is… Read More
Kopano Collaboration Platform is the email server of choice for our new customers. With that said, we have a lot of these installations being maintained in production. Below is our first generation automation script to update Kopano to the latest 8.4.x release for users who are not using apt-get. Note this script is a modified… Read More
Default serial console settings for Palo Alto Networks PA-500: Bits per second: 9600 Data bits: 8 Parity: None Stop bits: 1 Flow Control: None Works great in PuTTy, just set connection type as seen below. Connect the Console cable, which is provided by Palo Alto Networks, from the “Console” port to a computer, and use… Read More
If you read our previous article Debian Jessie Dynamic MOTD, then you may be wondering how this can be accomplished on your fresh new Debian Stretch 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 hosting a WordPress installation on your Linux server, than you may find it useful to automate the update using a bash script. While WordPress 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 at the… Read More
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
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