I've recently had to rebuild my laptop and needed to setup M$ fonts for work. The top hit for installing fonts is a stack exchange thread pointing to a 3rd Party download, given that I knew that office came with the fonts, I just needed to figure where they ...
Monitor for Fake Certificates with Certificate Transparency
Certificate Transparency (CT), is an open, public, Certificate Authority monitoring system. More info available over at certificate-transparency.org.
The CT web site sights a couple of examples where CAs have failed, either through compromise or mistake, but recently Facebook caught fake certificates where there was no fault of the CA ...
SSH Server on Windows, the Microsoft Way
An SSH server for windows, it's the kind of thing only a Linux/OSX user would ask for. The current defacto standard is Cygwin but if you fancy something a bit more native, something a bit backed by Microsoft then take a look at PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH on github.
Installation ...
Automated Let's Encrypt Certificates
Last month I was very pleased that I had managed an automated Let's Encrypt certificate renewal; the other night the renewal broke as the certificate was issued from a different intermediate CA, so help others out I thought I'd share with you my cron script.
Before copy/pasting ...
pip install crassh
Recently myself (and a maybe colleague or two) has been copy/pasting parts of C.R.A.SSH (crassh) my python script for automating commands on Cisco IOS devices into personal scripts to get something done; knowing there must be a better a way I decided to turn crassh into ...
Alpine Linux Raspberry Pi and Wireless (WiFi) firmware
Travis-CI and Dynamips a cloud router for testing scripts against Cisco IOS
I think I have started to get my head around unit tests for CRASSH; recently my initial implementation of paramiko's “ssh_session.recv_ready" was ballsed up, python3 was forgiving python2 would bork, creating an issue for many. My first unit test was a basic "print" which I ran on Travis-CI ...
Cisco CMNA
CentOS7 - syslog-ng: Error setting capabilities, capability management disabled; error=Operation not permitted
I've just installed syslog-ng from epel onto a test CentOS7 box and found that the service wouldn't start, a quick verify of my
syslog-ng.conf, withsyslog-ng -scame back like so...syslog-ng: Error setting capabilities, capability management disabled; error='Operation not permitted'The debain fix suggests something ...
Cisco CCNP Security
