My How-To guides & notes.

Nissan 300zx TwinTurbo

My 300zx TwinTurbo pre and post accident.

Logging in to Authelia

Following the previous Authelia blog listed below, we are at part 5, actually logging in to Authelia and setting up tokens for MFA etc. 1. Authelia for MFA on docker 2. Deploying test hosts for Authelia MFA authentication 3. Configuring Nginx reverse proxy in front of Authelia 4. Configuring Caddy

Caddy

Configure Caddy in front of Authelia

This started as a single page but became too large to manage, I've now split it up into these sections. 1. Authelia for MFA on docker 2. Deploying test hosts for Authelia MFA authentication 3. Configuring Nginx reverse proxy in front of Authelia 4. This page: Configuring Caddy

NginxProxyManager

Configure Nginx Reverse Proxy in front of Authelia

This Authelia section started as a single page but became too large to manage. It is now split up into the following topics. This is the third section. 1. Authelia for MFA on docker 2. Deploying test hosts for Authelia MFA authentication 3. This page: Configuring Nginx reverse proxy in

Authelia

Deploying test hosts for Authelia MFA authentication

This started as a single page but became too large to manage, I've now split it up into these sections. 1. Authelia for MFA on docker 2. This page: Deploying test hosts for Authelia MFA authentication 3. Configuring Nginx reverse proxy in front of Authelia 4. Configuring Caddy

Authelia

Authelia for MFA on docker

I am never going to state this is "the correct way", "the best way", or even "the only way". What I will state is that following these instructions provided me with a working environment with either Nginx Proxy Manager, or Caddy working as the

Haywood

Haywood Torch Magazine 1932

I have a couple of school magazines from 1931 and 1932 from the Haywood School for Girls, which was located on Perry Road, Sherwood, Nottingham. I intend donating both of these to the Seely School Centenary Celebrations, as the Seely School is now using the building originally built for the

Haywood

Haywood Torch Magazine 1931

I have a couple of school magazines from 1931 and 1932 from the Haywood School for Girls, which was located on Perry Road, Sherwood, Nottingham. I intend donating both of these to the Seely School Centenary Celebrations, as the Seely School is now using the building originally built for the

MilPixel.com

My bit of the Million Dollar Homepage.

Linux

SSH without password to/from Ubuntu 22.04

Allow ssh-rsa key type on Ubuntu 22.04 with or without password protection.

How-To

Unraid VM Disk Conversion

Unraid (or more accurately qemu) is able to convert disk images from VDI or VMDK to RAW. This is often required when migrating a VM from Virtualbox or VMWare over to Unraid. The command below will convert the VDI file to the a RAW image: qemu-img convert -p -f vdi

Aruba

Aruba OS-CX Packet Capture

Its always useful to be able to inspect traffic remotely, and the Aruba OS-CX software platform switches provides this functionality. This guide will demonstrate how to monitor ICMP traffic received or transmitted by a single host connected to one of the switch ports. First we need to configure a Mirror

How-To

How-To use Evil Limiter on Kali

Evil Limiter is a superb utility for analysing and limiting bandwidth used by hosts on your local network. First a disclaimer: Everything I've performed and illustrated here was performed on my own network, with my own host devices. You should never interfere or disrupt any hosts or networks

Linux

Deploy Kali using VirtualBox CMD line

Assuming you have already installed the Virtualbox application, you can use the command line to easily deploy a Kali VM image. The example here is using one of the pre-built virtual machines downloaded from the Kali.org website. The files are provided within a 7z archive, so can extracted using

How-To

Shaarli Docker Deployment

Quoting straight from the Shaarli Github page, Shaarli is "The personal, minimalist, super-fast, database free, bookmarking service." I have used Shaarl for keeping a list of bookmarks on numerous topics for a while now, but have only recently deployed it as a Docker container. The deployement wasn'

Docker

Ghost docker image defaults changed from sqlite to MySQL

Ghost has recently changed fro using sqlite to MySQL as its default database. There are lots of blogs and instructions out there how to move from sqlite to MySQL, which is probably the best thing to do long term. In the short term however, simply apply the following lines of

How-To

VeraLite Z-Wave and Apple Home Integration

I've been using MiCasaVerde VeraLite Z-Wave Home Automation Controller to manage my Z-Wave devices for years. I initially purchased the VeraLite platform when there was no such thing as Alexa etc. It is now therefore getting old, but it still works fine. I never has a MiOS account,

How-To

Upgrade Nextcloud on Docker

My simple approach. This is my simple approach to upgrading Nextcloud running in a docker container. It isn't the official recommended approach, but this method has worked for me through numerous upgrades. Depending on the release notes, I don't tend to upgrade every single release, so

How-To

TVHeadend, IPTV & EPG

I tried initially running TVHeadend (TVH) in a docker container initially, but whilt PVR functionality worked fine, watching streams live was very hit and miss. In the end, I installed it from a PPA on ubuntu and it has worked flawlessly. I'm not intending to go through the

How-To

Palo Alto, IP Info for rules.

I'm not aware of a simple way using the web based FW management front end to show the raw IP addresses associated with any given security rule. The only approach I've found it to highlight on each object individually to show the value. With object groups,

How-To

VirtualBox Enable VRDE from CLI

A brief How-To enable the VRDE remote desktop feature for a VirtualBox guest on a linux host using the command line. I already have a VirtualBox guest machine named Alpine deployed on a Ubuntu host, I wish to enable VRDE and configure both the TCP port and IP address to

How-To

VirtualBox Extension Pack Install

This is a quick How-To to install the Oracle VirtualBox extension pack using the command line on a Ubuntu host, though it should be very similar on other distributions. Assuming VirtualBox is already installed, we can check the version as below: jon@Ubuntu:~$ vboxmanage --version 6.1.32_Ubuntur149290 Following

Networking

Wi-Fi Pineapple VII Antennas

I can never remember which is which, so thought I would drop an image below for me to refer back to when required. That's All Folks.

Aruba

Aruba OS-CX Upgrade from USB

I've already done a How-To for upgrading code on Aruba OS-CX switches available here. However I thought it was worth a couple of lines about mounting a USB device to enable code installs when the switch is offline. Once the USB device is inserted in the port we

Docker

Deploy Ghost on Docker

Simple How-To install the Ghost blogging platform on Docker running on Ubuntu 20.04. The first step is to define where the data is to be stored for the Ghost docker container is stored for easy backups etc. sudo mkdir /storage/docker/ghost/content -p This provides us with a

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