I have installed phpMyAdmin on CentOS 6 via the EPEL repository using: yum install phpMyAdmin I was asked to set the default theme from the new jazzy one to the traditional one. To do so I edited the phpMyAdmin config file. On CentOS this was at... » More
I needed to test a ProFTP server to ensure that it could cope with 200 simultaneous users. The relevant lines in /etc/proftpd.conf to control this are: MaxInstances 30 MaxClientsPerHost 20 "Only %m connections per host... » More
I was following the guide How to Install PhoneGap in Ubuntu and I am regurgitating that advice here with my own changes: Install PhoneGap and Pre-requisites sudo apt-get install default-jre default-jdk ant sudo apt-get install npm sudo npm update... » More
Installation on CentOS Download the 64-bit RPM: wget https://www.digicert.com/certificate-inspector/agent-pkg/digicertagent-x64.rpm Install the package: rpm -ivh digicertagent-x64.rpm Register the Agent You will need your DigiCert credentials... » More
I am using PHP with LDAP to manage some aspects of user accounts within Active Directory. One of the things I needed to do was to reset the accounts of users who had incorrectly entered their password too many times. Initially I thought that the... » More
I upgraded a CentOS server today updating PHP from php-5.3.3-27.el6_5.x86_64 to php-5.3.3-27.el6_5.2.x86_64 This stopped a PHP web application I had written from being able to communicate with Active Directory over LDAPS. Normal LDAP appears to... » More
We were configuring OpenStack on a private 192.168 network and needed to use a web browser to browse to the OpenStack dashboard. The quickest easiest way to do that is by: ssh -D 8888 jonny@sshgateway From the ssh manpage: -D Specifies a local... » More
I regularly need to connect to SSH hosts behind a firewall via a single SSH host with SSH access enabled. Since I am connecting to many hosts through this proxy SSH host I can make my life a little easier by adding some entries to my ~/.ssh/config... » More
I needed to copy some data from a virtual machine onto a USB Disk that was plugged into the ESXi machine hosting the virtual machine. Step 1 - Plug the USB Disk into the ESXi host Step 2 - Add a USB Controller to the VM Step 3 -... » More
I needed to create a new MySQL user that would be able to create new users itself and grant permissions to the accounts that it creates. To do so I used the following:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'subadmin'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
I have installed phpMyAdmin on CentOS 6 via the EPEL repository using: yum install phpMyAdmin I was asked to set the default theme from the new jazzy one to the traditional one. To do so I edited the phpMyAdmin config file. On CentOS this was at... » More
