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Red Hat 7 – Integrating Linux Systems with Active Directory Environments

Red Hat 7 – Integrating Linux Systems with Active Directory Environments

Windows Integration Guide – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Integrating Linux Systems with Active Directory Environments Abstract Heterogeneous IT environments often contain various different domains and operating systems that need to be able to seamlessly communicate. Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers multiple ways to tightly integrate Linux domains with Active Directory (AD) on Microsoft Windows. The integration is possible on different domain objects that include users, groups, services, or systems. This guide also covers different integration scenarios, ranging from lightweight AD pass-through…

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CISSP CPE Requirements and Resources

CISSP CPE Requirements and Resources

REQUIREMENT TYPES CISSP® Group A Credits: Direct Information Security Domains of the (ISC)2 CBK  Security and Risk Management  Asset Security  Security Engineering  Communication and Network Security  Identity and Access Management  Security Assessment and Testing  Security Operations  Software Development Security Group B Credits: Suggested Categories of General Professional Development Activities  Management courses  Interpersonal communications skills  Interviewing techniques  Team development skills  Project planning activities  Technical skills not in…

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Easy issue creation for external reporters: the JIRA Issue Collector plugin beta

Easy issue creation for external reporters: the JIRA Issue Collector plugin beta

Atlassian is excited to announce the beta release of our new Issue Collector Plugin, which makes reporting issues easy. This is a must-have plugin for anyone developing a web application: users can raise issues in your JIRA instance directly from within your app, without navigating or logging into JIRA. A trigger link within your application will open a dialog box, where your users can submit details. The details entered are then submitted to your JIRA instance in the background. There…

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“esxcli software vib” commands to patch an ESXi 5.x/6.x host (2008939)

“esxcli software vib” commands to patch an ESXi 5.x/6.x host (2008939)

“esxcli software vib” commands to patch an ESXi 5.x/6.x host (2008939) Language Editions Purpose This article outlines the procedure for installing patches on an ESXi 5.x/6.x host from the command line using esxcli software vib commands. For more information on installing VIBs on an ESX host, see Update a Host with Individual VIBs section in the vSphere 5 Upgrade Guide. You can also install patches using esxcli software profile commands. For more information, see vSphere Command-Line Interface Reference section in…

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RedHat 7 – Get Access to System During the Boot Process

RedHat 7 – Get Access to System During the Boot Process

RHEL7: Interrupt the boot process in order to gain access to a system. Note: This is a critical RHCSA 7 exam objective (if you can’t take control of a VM through a reboot at the beginning of the exam, you will fail it entirely). Presentation In RHEL 7, the procedure to get access to a system during the boot process and modify the root password has changed because of the adoption of Systemd. There were several procedures floating around to…

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GitLab Wiki Markdown Coding

GitLab Wiki Markdown Coding

GitLab Flavored Markdown (GFM) Note: Not all of the GitLab-specific extensions to Markdown that are described in this document currently work on our documentation website. For the best result, we encourage you to check this document out as rendered by GitLab: markdown.md GitLab uses the Redcarpet Ruby library for Markdown processing. GitLab uses “GitLab Flavored Markdown” (GFM). It extends the standard Markdown in a few significant ways to add some useful functionality. It was inspired by GitHub Flavored Markdown. You…

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Cloud Foundry CLI Reference Guide

Cloud Foundry CLI Reference Guide

SOURCE: http://cli.cloudfoundry.org/en-US/cf/ NAME cf – A command line tool to interact with Cloud Foundry USAGE cf [global options] command [arguments…] [command options] VERSION 6.27.0+d26b32d.2017-06-08 GETTING STARTED help Show help version Print the version login Log user in logout Log user out passwd Change user password target Set or view the targeted org or space api Set or view target api url auth Authenticate user non-interactively APPS apps List all apps in the target space app Display health and status for…

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How to Recover SA Password and Start SQL Server in Single User Mode

How to Recover SA Password and Start SQL Server in Single User Mode

Recover SA Password on Microsoft SQL Server Introduction This article applies to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 at the time of this writing. If you ever lost a SA password, you may have thought your only option is to reinstall SQL and re-attach to the DB’s. However, SQL server provides a much better disaster recovery method which preserves objects and data in the master DB. Members of the server’s Local Administrator’s group can access SQL server…

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How does Large File Support LFS work in Gitlab

How does Large File Support LFS work in Gitlab

How does Large File Support LFS work in Gitlab   add and track a 3.7GB tar file in a repo, and push it: git lfs track “*.tar” cp <a folder>/a.tar . git add a.tar git commit -m “add a.tar” git push origin master Question 1: at the end of this process, has a.tar been uploaded on the gitlab server ? It is unclear as the “add” and the “commit” commands took some time (maybe not long enough to let me…

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Installing PowerShell on Linux

Installing PowerShell on Linux

CentOS 7 This package also works on Oracle Linux 7. Installation via Package Repository (preferred) – CentOS 7 PowerShell Core for Linux is published to official Microsoft repositories for easy installation (and updates). # Register the Microsoft RedHat repository curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/prod.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft.repo # Install PowerShell sudo yum install -y powershell # Start PowerShell powershell After registering the Microsoft repository once as superuser, you just need to use sudo yum update powershell to update PowerShell. Installation via Direct…

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DOSify Linux – Linux Alias (How make Linux less stupid) mkdir, rmdir …

DOSify Linux – Linux Alias (How make Linux less stupid) mkdir, rmdir …

Why would Linux people make commands longer than the Windows people ? How to fix it in Linux: alias dir=”ls” alias copy=”cp” alias rename=”mv” alias md=”mkdir” alias rd=”rmdir” alias del=”rm -i”   More Information About Alias:   The alias Command   The alias command makes it possible to launch any command or group of commands (inclusive of any options, arguments and redirection) by entering a pre-set string (i.e., sequence of characters).That is, it allows a user to create simple names…

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Learning Linux

Learning Linux

Website Training: https://linuxjourney.com/ https://training.linuxfoundation.org/free-linux-training http://www.tecmint.com/free-online-linux-learning-guide-for-beginners/ YouTube Introduction Training: (it is better to just do it rather than watch the video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t_gJWC32zk Free eBooks: http://www.rickyadams.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/linuxfun.pdf http://www.rickyadams.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Introduction-to-Linux-Hands-On.pdf http://www.rickyadams.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Linux-Advanced-Administration.pdf Online Resources: http://www.rickyadams.com/wp/index.php/linux/ http://www.rickyadams.com/wp/?s=linux https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LPI_Linux_Certification http://linuxreviews.org/

Linux Processes

Linux Processes

My Favorites: ps, pgrep, pkill How to Manage Processes from the Linux Terminal: 10 Commands You Need to Know The Linux terminal has a number of useful commands that can display running processes, kill them, and change their priority level. This post lists the classic, traditional commands, as well as some more useful, modern ones. Many of the commands here perform a single function and can be combined — that’s the Unix philosophy of designing programs. Other programs, like htop,…

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Docker Containers Management With Portainer

Docker Containers Management With Portainer

Install Portainer Portainer binaries are available on each release page: Portainer releases Download and extract the binary to a location on disk: $ cd /opt $ wget https://github.com/portainer/portainer/releases/download/1.12.4/portainer-1.12.4-linux-amd64.tar.gz $ tar xvpfz portainer-1.12.4-linux-amd64.tar.gz Then just use the portainer binary as you would use CLI flags with Docker. Note: Portainer will try to write its data into the /data folder by default. You must ensure this folder exists first. $ mkdir /data $ cd /opt $ ./portainer/portainer You can use the -p…

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Docker Containers: Getting Started

Docker Containers: Getting Started

SOURCE: https://docs.docker.com/get-started/ Get Started, Part 1: Orientation and Setup Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 1: Orientation 2: Containers 3: Services 4: Swarms 5: Stacks 6: Deploy your app Welcome! We are excited you want to learn how to use Docker. In this six-part tutorial, you will: Get set up and oriented, on this page. Build and run your first app Turn your app into a scaling service Span your service across multiple machines Add a visitor counter that persists data…

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Python IDE Research – May 2017

Python IDE Research – May 2017

Comparison of Various Python IDEs As of May 2017, I have only actively used Idle and Pyzo, but have tried a many more. Idle – Pyzo – Canopy – Spyder   … (more coming) Canopy Express By downloading Canopy you acknowledge your acceptance of all the terms and conditions of the applicable license. v1.7.4 Documentation Platform Python Released Size MD5 Linux [64-bit] 2.7 download 2016-07-21 619.8 MB a2510ac37a4ab3079ea4aa728ff31b0e macOS [64-bit] 2.7 download 2016-07-21 437.3 MB 889a2e2beb7dfd8e77b40ba8f603b387 Windows [64-bit] 2.7 download…

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Processing Excel Files in Python Using XLRD (Documentation)

Processing Excel Files in Python Using XLRD (Documentation)

xlrd 1.0.0 documentation Handling of Unicode Dates in Excel spreadsheets Named references, constants, formulas, and macros Formatting information in Excel Spreadsheets Loading worksheets on demand XML vulnerabilities and Excel files API Reference Installation Instructions Development Changes Acknowledgements Licenses xlrd Docs » xlrd 1.0.0 documentation Edit on GitHub xlrd documentation¶ xlrd is a library for reading data and formatting information from Excel files, whether they are .xls or .xlsx files.   Handling of Unicode¶ This package presents all text strings as…

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Kill Processes from Command Prompt in Windows

Kill Processes from Command Prompt in Windows

Kill Processes from Command Prompt I’m sure you are familiar with the traditional way to kill or end a process in Windows using Task Manager.  This method is effective but not nearly as fun as killing a process in Command Prompt.  Additionally, killing processes in Command Prompt provides much more control and the ability to end multiple processes at once. All of this is possible with the TaskKill command. First, let’s cover the basics.  You can kill a process by…

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Installing Third-Party Python Modules

Installing Third-Party Python Modules

Installing Third-Party Modules Beyond the standard library of modules packaged with Python, other developers have written their own modules to extend Python’s capabilities even further. The primary way to install third-party modules is to use Python’s pip tool. This tool securely downloads and installs Python modules onto your computer from https://pypi.python.org/, the website of the Python Software Foundation. PyPI, or the Python Package Index, is a sort of free app store for Python modules. The pip Tool The executable file…

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