15

Jul

2014

1and1 Overcharging for Backups

July 15, 2014 jonny rants

So back in November 2013 1and 1 contacted me to tell me they would be physically moving my server from one data centre to another: In the email on the 3rd November they advised signing up for 1and1 Professional Backup. They advised that the backup... » More

19

Jun

2014

Browsing the GitLab Omnibus Postgres Database

June 19, 2014 jonny red hat centos

After installing GitLab Omnibus edition I wanted to take a look at the database tables. To do so I installed phpPgAdmin (available in the EPEL repo): yum install phpPgAdmin I created a user in Postgres for use with phpPgAdmin: su -... » More

10

Jun

2014

Restricting SSH Logins to LDAP Group

June 10, 2014 jonny open source, red hat centos

The are multiple methods of doing this including using pam but I settled for the following: In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file I currently have: AuthorizedKeysCommand /usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-ldap-wrapper AuthorizedKeysCommandRunAs nobody to check... » More

04

Jun

2014

Installing Darkstat on CentOS 6

June 4, 2014 jonny network, open source

The darkstat software is available in the rpmforge repository so you will need to install RPMforge first: rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm Then install Darkstat with: yum... » More

04

Jun

2014

pam_exec.so Execute Commands on User Login

June 4, 2014 jonny linux, red hat centos

In addition to the normal pam_mkhomedir.so I wanted to create a directory for each user on an alternative disk. To do so I edited: vi /etc/pam.d/password-auth added the line below (just above the line: session optional... » More

28

Apr

2014

Gitlab Omnibus – Change the Nginx Port

April 28, 2014 jonny open source

Ignore original text below. The correct method is to amend the /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb file with the port e.g.: external_url "https://gitlab.domain.co.uk:8443" nginx = "/etc/pki/tls/certs/pubkey.pem" nginx = "/etc/pki/tls/private/privkey.pem" Then... » More

24

Mar

2014

Rebuild Win 2008R2 Domain Controller with Same Name

March 24, 2014 jonny windows

We recently needed to rebuild a Windows 2008R2 Domain Controller from scratch using the same name as it previously used. So we first needed to remove the existing server details from the Directory using ntdsutil as follows (copied from MS site): 1.... » More

21

Feb

2014

Linux Voice Magazine with my name in it!

February 21, 2014 jonny foss, linux

Linux Voice magazine Issue Number 1 arrived today: and my name as a 'Founder' from the IndieGogo campaign appears on page 111. Apparently I'm awesome.    

18

Feb

2014

Run Windows MMC as a different user

February 18, 2014 jonny windows

While logged in to a Windows Desktop as a normal domain user (jonny) I wanted to be able to run the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in as a Domain Admin user (adm-jonny) to do so requires using the 'runas' command. When I had first tried... » More

26

Jan

2014

Entangle Canon 60D Tethered Shooting on Ubuntu

January 26, 2014 jonny photography, ubuntu

I wanted to test tethered shooting with my Canon EOS 60D. Tethered shooting is useful when you want to see a large view of your captured images while shooting. I had connected the camera to the computer via USB cable - I had to try a few cables before I... » More