Running ssh across a vpn connection I started having my ssh sessions fail to connect. After starting ssh with the “-vvv” option, the session would timeout after getting a debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY After doing some research, I found other people … Continue reading →
Fix your logon prompt for when you are on the console of your Linux server (Centos 6 runlevel 3 or Centos 7 multi-user.target) so that it displays your current ip address Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add the following lines to the end … Continue reading →
A quick synopsis on setting up a Cisco ASA and a Centos 6 or 7 system to use SNMP v3 to be monitored by Cacti Cisco ASA en conf t # create a snmp-server group (needed for SNMP v3) # … Continue reading →
# uuidgen ifcfg-eth0 e62680c3-f5f5-4f06-b862-68e00e3b4506 … Continue reading →
Disable Network Proxy Authentication Popup There is a specific issue that causes users to receive a popup asking for the root password after logged on. The below workaround will work for CentOS 7.x and 6.x too. Workaround Create a … Continue reading →
Installation Centos 7 rpm –import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-2.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm yum -y install drbd84-utils kmod-drbd84 Centos 6 rpm –import http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-5.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm –import ‘http://keys.gnupg.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x0608B895&op=get’ yum -y install drbd84-utils kmod-drbd84 Configuration create /etc/drbd.d/drbd1.res resource repdata { protocol … Continue reading →
Centos 7 Enable yum repository by logging in as root at a bash prompt, then cut/copy/paste the following: cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo [google-chrome] name=google-chrome – $basearch baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub EOF You will see the following [root@mycomputer ~]# cat … Continue reading →
In linux, hard drive dev assignments can get changed between reboots – especially with external/removable drives. This means using /dev/sdX or /dev/hdX is not the best way to mount a drive that needs to be mounted every time at boot. … Continue reading →
I have found the following two sites helpful in finding issues with the configuration of SSL secured web sites https://ssltools.digicert.com/checker/ https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html Test which ciphers (TLS, SSL, etc) are enabled nmap -sV –script ssl-enum-ciphers -p 443 www.yourdomain.com Ref: https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/ssl-enum-ciphers.html … Continue reading →
If you try to connect with Centos 6 to an iDRAC5 you probably get this message: Error when reading from SSL socket connection The iDrac 5 ( PE 1900, PE 2900, … ) uses SSLv3 which is disabled in Java-6 … Continue reading →