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SSH without password to/from Ubuntu 22.04

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

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

Docker

Install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04

Docker is available within the ubuntu repositories, however if you prefer to run the last available stable version you can add the docker repositories directly to use as the source. We will need to uninstall the existing version first though: sudo apt remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc As

Aruba

Aruba OS-CX Code Upgrade

Its time to perform some upgrades across the Aruba switching estate. These switches run the Aruba OS-CX code rather than the older Aruba OS code base. First, lets just confirm the platform. Aruba# sh system Hostname : Aruba System Description : FL.10.05.0021 System Contact : System Location : Vendor : Aruba Product

Docker

Nginx Proxy Manager on Docker

Nginx is an ideal way of hiding plain http based sites, or providing centralised management to a bunch of individual docker hosted web applications. Presented here in this How-To is a simple deployement which can be replicated on any VPS or self hosted home server. The pre-requisites are simply that

Life

Missing Socks Poem

The following is a poem written by my Dad sometime in the early 70s to my Mum. Some of the terms may be outdated now, for which I appologise for if they cause distress. I've published it here in memory of my Dad. MISSING SOCKS Elephant in jungle

How-To

MergerFS on Ubuntu 20.04

This post for my own references, is made thanks to this great article. https://www.teknophiles.com/2018/02/19/disk-pooling-in-linux-with-mergerfs/ Start by downloading the latest version, for me it is the mergerfs_2.31.0.ubuntu-bionic_amd64.deb file: wget https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/releases/download/2.31.

How-To

Palo-Alto, Create Tech-Support File

admin@PA850> scp export tech-support to admin@10.1.2.3:/fw/ Group 'batch' suspend Collecting command output... configure save config to techsupport-saved-currcfg.xml exit show admins all show clock show system software status show jobs pending show jobs processed show system info show system files show

How-To

Shaarli Bookmark - missing icons.

In a few versions of Shaarli there appears to be a bug which stops some of the icons appearing for your sites on the picturewall. I believe this has been fixed in later versions, but this simple workaround solved the problem for me. From you shaarli directory, simply edit the

Life

A Poem

I have no idea where this Poem originates from, but it has made a signifiant impression on a close family member. I share it here in the hope someone else stumbles across it someday. It amuses me the no wireless has new meaning, these days it often means Internet access,