TheDude

I’m only halfway through this but it seems to shatter my previous assumptions on what NASA is doing. https://astroengineer.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/a-curiosity-of-spirit-full-document/ AstroEngineer’s Blog The stories of my slow path to awakening. Home About Guide to Anonymous & Evidenceless Internet Preface I am publishing this story somewhat hastily in response to the hue and cry on the Above Top …

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Feb 11

OpenVPN ConfigQuery

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Just a quick note on setting the security for OpenVPN. To disable the older cyphers you can use QueryConfig in the command line. For our AWS Ec2 instance I simply used this line: Then confirm with: Finally restart the service:

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Oct 18

Denyhosts on CentOS

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Infrastructure, Linux

In general, I install fail2ban and denyhosts on all of my external linux servers that have port 22 open. This is generally only because sftp is also installed on these systems because marketing people don’t know any other options like S3 on AWS. I want to point out the files that need to be looked …

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Mar 22

netdom join Error 53, Error 2, DNS is correct. Windows 2012 R2 doesn’t like /ou

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We have been using a script for years that will join a Windows system to our domain. Now with 2012 R2 it never executed. And this was not a DNS issue. Ping your DC’s with the friendly name from the system first and if they resolve you are good. At first I thought was an …

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Feb 04

JDBC connector to MSSQL 2014

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YAFD (Yet another fucking developer) that needs to use java to connect to YAFDB (Yet Another Fucking DataBase). So start off and install Oracle java JRE 8 on your sql server. Then go here and get the latest Microsoft JDBC Driver, 4.2 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11774 Go to your control Panel –> System and Security –> System. Click …

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Feb 04

Ubuntu SNMP config for Zabbix and Checkpoint

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Linux

I’m setting up SNMP monitoring for our Checkpoint devices in AWS and Zabbix needs the SNMP client configured. A good tutorial is located here: But adding the templates for checkpoint was more involved than I thought. I grabbed the templates here: https://share.zabbix.com/network-appliances/checkpoint-fw-1-hardware. Then created the mapping by going to Administrator –> General –> On the …

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Oct 30

Build bitcoind from source Fedora 22

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Bitcoin, Linux

Disclaimer – this does NOT work. It’s close, but no love. As usual there are no good instructions on the net to do this. First get the source, I already had git installed and I’m actually building Feathercoin instead of bitcoin but it should be the same for both. Also I’m presuming that you already …

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Jun 12

Moving AD groups from one domain to another using ldifde

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Infrastructure

This is something that I almost never do so I’m documenting it here to avoid future mistakes. We are migrating between domains and while we considered ADMT, there was too much clutter and our AD structure changed. So a piece meal approach was decided on. Hint to future self, don’t do this again, use ADMT! …

Tags: AD, export, import, ldifde

May 20

Tomcat 8 redirect and force SSL

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Linux

Edit the tomcat8/conf/server.xml and add the following for 80, and another for 8080 if need be. <Connector port=”80″ protocol=”HTTP/1.1″ connectionTimeout=”20000″ URIEncoding=”UTF-8″ enableLookups=”false” redirectPort=”443″ /> Now Edit the tomcat8/conf/web.xml and at the bottom just above </web-app> put in the following and changing Entire Application to your application in webapps. <!– SSL settings. only allow HTTPS access …

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May 19

Java 8, tomcat 8, SSL setup from pfx, using 443

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Linux

This took me a day to setup on a new CentOS Amazon image. To be honest I’d never configured SSL for tomcat before, and this was the first time that I’d used tomcat8. So I just want to go over the steps I had to do so I’ll remember all of the tweeks needed. Configuring …

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