Category Archives: Technical

Too Many Machines

Posted on January 25, 2019 by larry

Yesterday I was chatting with my friend Rob. We are collaborating on a chef project and the conversation came on how many machines we have running. He said he had maybe three or four machines, I have maybe a dozen … Continue reading →

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Cool Password Check Tool

Posted on January 23, 2019 by larry

I wanted to check my passwords to see if they were compromised but really didn’t feel safe having a third party check them. https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords Luckily they provide a large 10Gb file with hashed SHA1 passwords. I can simply run echo … Continue reading →

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Canon Scanner Issue

Posted on January 22, 2019 by larry

Been struggling with my scanner since I upgraded the OS share where it stores files from CentOS 6 to 7. After messing around with two servers, I am thinking it is an OS issue, not a configuration issue. I am … Continue reading →

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It was the package!!

Posted on January 20, 2019 by larry

I was struggling mightily trying to get CentOS LDAP to work. Actually non tls connections was pretty easy, but I could not get it with normal TLS. It ended up being bugging software package, not my steps.

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Full Connection to AD

Posted on January 19, 2019 by larry

I was able to get a new CentOS 7 authenticating against AD for both a command line login and a web page. In addition, I am able to access openldap securely to get a web page to securely connect as … Continue reading →

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OpenLDAP on CentOS 7

Posted on January 18, 2019 by larry

Now that I got AD working, there is got to be a way to get ldap working easily. Kind of a struggle, but it could be because I should start from scratch. I am trying to use an existing server.

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Adding CentOS 7 to AD

Posted on January 17, 2019 by larry

I am able to easily add a CentOS 7 box to an active directory network. It is extremely easy, so much easier than running setup or editing Basically yum install sssd realmd oddjob oddjob-mkhomedir adcli samba-common samba-common-tools krb5-workstation openldap-clients policycoreutils-python … Continue reading →

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CentOS Kickstart

Posted on January 16, 2019 by larry

Kind of learned this the hard way, but when you kickstart a machine for CentOS 7, 1GB of RAM is not enough. A default install on VMware workstation only assigns 1GB of RAM on a CentOS VM But on an … Continue reading →

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CentOS on Brix

Posted on January 15, 2019 by larry

Kind of disappointed that I can not easily install CentOS 7 on my Brix computer, Looks like I will reach out to community and try and get it to work. BUT for what the primary purpose, running a VM, yeah … Continue reading →

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Moving to Office 365

Posted on January 13, 2019 by larry

Got most of the group on to Office 365 Essentials. Kind of nice having One Drive integrated across everything. Trying to figure out what skype does too. Did more work on the Gigabyte Brix, actually got a VM to run … Continue reading →

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