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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.

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

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'

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

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

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

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.

Ubuntu Server + Xubuntu-core

Simple How-To for adding a graphical display to a base Ubuntu Server 20.04 system. sudo apt update && apt upgrade -y sudo apt install lightdm tasksel sudo tasksel install xubuntu-core reboot Should you install multiple desktop environments, to specify the default session, use the following command. sudo update-alternatives

Ubuntu Samba Install

Following on from my efforts building a dedicated data recovery box, I decided to use Samba as an easy way of looking through the recovered data, in addition to the local client disks. First of all, a quick update as always to check the latest packages in the repo: root@

Disk Recovery Ubuntu Box

The Background After years of having multiple floppies, SCSI, IDE, SATA, USB drives and sticks kicking around the office I’ve decided it can’t carry on like this. I’ve fallen into the habit of buying the biggest USB disk I could afford to shuffle data back and forth

Grub Default Last Session

Grub has been around for years, sitting in the boot process allowing us to choose which OS to boot from. One option which I find particularly useful is the ability to remember the last selection and default to that selection. If like me you have ever needed windows in a

Working Ubuntu Linux & WPA2e (enterprise) Configuration

Following on from my recent entry WPA2 Enterprise on a Raspberry PI I was asked if I could offer some guidance for a couple of linux distributions, in particular Ubuntu Mate and Elementary OS. The instructions here may be applicable to other Linux distributions, but I’ve only confirmed them

Working Raspberry Pi & WPA2e (enterprise) Configuration.

I’ve seen numerous posts with many different approaches to getting the working. I’ve had to do this recently so did some testing along what way and made some notes. I had the opportunity to test on a number of Pi’s so should it should work with any