I recently had a need to create local firewall rules for certain executables which would block all outbound traffic for those executables. Whilst not particularly difficult I thought it would be useful to be able to do so from a “right-click” option. There seemed to be a lot of things on the web about thisContinue reading “Outbound Firewall Block Rule creation from Context Menu.”
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How to reset a forgotten or lost Guacamole user password in a Postgres Database
This week I found myself booting up an old environment which used Guacamole to present some resources. Whilst I had server credentials , I did not have any of the Guacamole user credentials so I looked in to how I could reset the accounts. My environment uses Postgres. After a bit of messing about IContinue reading “How to reset a forgotten or lost Guacamole user password in a Postgres Database”
Automated Script to install HAProxy 2.8.12 , OpenSSL 3.0.15 and Modsecurity.
So ….. My latest effort has been a bash script that runs on both Ubuntu 22.04 and Alma 8.6 and installs HAProxy 2.8.12, OpenSSL 3.0.15 and Modsecurity. The starting point is a clean build, with latest OS patches installed and no additional packages. This script downloads, extracts and installs the version of OpenSSL 3 andContinue reading “Automated Script to install HAProxy 2.8.12 , OpenSSL 3.0.15 and Modsecurity.”
CentOS 8 EOL – Which Distro to move to?
CentOS 8 going end of life at the end of 2021 has left many people with a choice to make. Do I stay with an unsupported OS? Do I move to CentOS Stream ? Do I move to a different distro ? Most people use CentOS as it is binary compliant with RHEL, that isContinue reading “CentOS 8 EOL – Which Distro to move to?”
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