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Tag: linux
Using U2F key for sudo authentication
I got my U2F key for use with online accounts. It is cheaper than the popular Yubikey and it works well. Did you know you can use it for sudo or pam authentication? Here is how.
TLS1.3 on older linux distro
TLS1.3 is not commonly supported on older distro due to slow adaptation of new version of openssl. To get around that, we can compile libressl from source. Here is how I did it on AmazonLinux2.
Automatically update EL8
In EL7, we can use yum-cron to automatically install updates. On EL8, the equivalent tool is dnf-automatic. Here is how to set it up.
Load Averages on Linux/UNIX systems
Load Averages on Linux/UNIX systems
Run RHEL8 on docker with Red Hat UBI image
Red Hat is offering a few official docker images for RHEL8. One can now use or build images based on the latest operating system from Red Hat. Here is how to do it in 3 simple steps
RHEL8 and Ansible
Red Hat EL8 is available now since May 7th. It’s not particularly exciting IMO. Many “new” features have been available on other distros quite a while ago. Here, I want to evaluate how easy it is to adopt my existing ansible playbooks on this new version of Red Hat.
UID > INT_MAX
From thehackernews, it was said when the UID is larger than INT_MAX, which is 2147483647, privilege validation is improperly handled and that gives the user right to run systemctl commands as if he/she is a privileged user. What is my INT_MAX? Though it’s hard to imagine who would use such an UID when they usually starts…
Cool feature on Azure – Run Command Script
I don’t think I’ve ever said anything good about Azure, but I’ve finally ran into one today. Someone screwed up sshd_config and the service would not start anymore. With the run script tool, I was able to revert the config to the original version and restart the service. Fortunately, the changes were checked into RCS,…
Building my first Linux package
Let’s take a look at how to build a really simple Linux package. The most common package formats are definitely .deb and .rpm. One will find them on Debian-variants and Redhat-variants respectively. In the following examples, a package will be created and it will contain 1 script.The script depends on Python so I want the…