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Create New Key Pair for SSH

SSH Administration

Create the Key Pair Bash # No comment, no password on key file, output to current directory as ...

Updated 1 day ago by 0xBEN

xargs

Linux Administration Command Line Tricks

Pipe HEREDOC to xargs When creating a HEREDOC, you can use any keyword to denote the start and e...

Updated 1 week ago by 0xBEN

Change Default User Account

Kali Optimizations

Running this on a fresh Kali installation. Login as kali user and run these commands to add a new...

Updated 1 week ago by 0xBEN

NoMachine Customizations

Kali Optimizations

Auto-Login On Kali side, go to Startup & Shutdown > Login Screen (SDDM) and click Behavior . Set...

Updated 1 week ago by 0xBEN

Change to KDE Plasma Desktop Environment

Kali Optimizations

Installing KDE Plasma Official Documentation: https://www.kali.org/docs/general-use/switching-de...

Updated 1 week ago by 0xBEN

SMB Client Configuration

Kali Optimizations

Tweaking the Configuration File You can find the client configuration file at: /etc/samba/smb.co...

Updated 1 week ago by 0xBEN

Volatility

Memory Forensics

Downloading Volatility Download the standalone executable based on your operating environment: ...

Updated 3 weeks ago by 0xBEN

Configuring 802.1q VLANs

Computer Networking

Tagged vs Untagged Untagged If a port is marked as untagged on a VLAN ID, then this denotes the...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

Create Self-Signed TLS Certificates

Certificates and Encryption

When You Should Do This If you have an internal/demo/test server where you'd like to encrypt tra...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

PowerShell: Adding Registry Hives

Windows Administration

Get-PSDrive -PSProvider Registry Name Used (GB) Free (GB) Provider Root ...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

Windows: Unattended Sleep Timeout

Windows Administration

Problem A Windows guest running under the Proxmox hypervisor repeatedly powers off despite havin...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

xRDP Server on KDE Plasma

Linux Administration

Install and Configure xRDP # Install xRDP server sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y xrdp #...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

Linux: Booting into Single-User Mode

Linux Administration

At the bootloader screen, press the e key to edit the GRUB configuration. Use the up arrow and...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

Disable Terminal Chime

Linux Administration

Linux User Scope Set this line in ~/.inputrc set bell-style none Then, run this command: bind -f...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

Automating with AWS Secrets Manager

Ansible Automation with Ansible

Use Case In this scenario the following is true: You have an Ansible server in AWS You have ...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

Example Playbook from Start to Finish

Ansible Automation with Ansible

Configuring Ansible Copy the global config to my home directory. That way, I'll keep my Ansible ...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

Defining Group Variables and Protecting Secrets

Ansible Automation with Ansible

Group Variables Back on Defining the Inventory, you may remember that we broke the inventory up i...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

Defining the Inventory

Ansible Automation with Ansible

Defining the Inventory The inventory is everything when it comes to Ansible. Your inventory ...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

Troubleshooting

Fleet DM FleetDM On Debian 11

Hosts Enrolling with Empty Data In my testing, the way to reproduce the issue is: Remove a ...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN

Upgrading Fleet Versions

Fleet DM FleetDM On Debian 11

Stop the Server First, stop any running FleetDM processes. I have systemd controlling my FleetDM...

Updated 1 month ago by 0xBEN