An New England-based, professional dilettante
I keep forgetting how to do this, so I’m putting it here for my own edification. Chrome and Firefox browsers require SAN extensions for ssl certificates to be valid. Create / request certificates with the extensions to save yourself a headache. openssl req \ -newkey rsa:2048 \ -x509 \ -nodes \ -keyout server.key \ -new…
There was a need to start archiving things to AWS Glacier as part of a disaster-recovery initiative. I wrote a bash script to take a target directory, archive it with tar and gzip, encrypt it with gpg, split it into 4GiB chunks, and upload it to Glacier. The script can also handle < 4GiB objects;…
If you are trying to run a virtual machine using libvirt (KVM) with bridged networking on the host, the default configuration for 802.1D MAC bridging doesn’t support forwarding of EAPOL traffic for 802.1X authentication. Running the wpa_supplicant on the VM guest will fail. The following assumes you’ve already configured bridged networking on the VM host…