Streamlined SSH Tunnels for RDP: Jump Hosts and One-Liner Magic Imagine being a sysadmin ninja, crafting multi-hop SSH tunnels and punching through firewalls like a legend, all without breaking a sweat. If you’ve ever wrestled with layer-upon-layer of SSH hops to access a remote RDP session, you’re probably looking to add some real efficiency to … Read more
“Unable to negotiate with 192.168.1.3 port 22: no matching cipher found. Their offer: 3des-cbc” ?! I’ve seen similar errors before, didn’t make good notes on how it was resolved.. so here are a couple of items. 1 – nano ~/.ssh/config and set the connection parameters for each server you often connect to using the example … Read more
Overview If you’re working in IT infrastructure, web hosting, or managing secure connections for multiple domains/subdomains, you’ve likely run across SAN certificates. These magic multi-host certs allow for Subject Alternative Names—a necessity when you’re consolidating domains or managing microservices architecture. In this guide, I’ll show you how to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) … Read more
To change the validity period settings for a CA, follow these steps. Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry … Read more
Requirements for trusted certificates in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 Learn about new security requirements for TLS server certificates in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15. All TLS server certificates must comply with these new security requirements in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15: TLS server certificates and issuing CAs using RSA keys must use key sizes … Read more
The Get-StorageReliabilityCounter cmdlet gets the storage reliability counters for the specified disk or physical disk. These counters include information about such things as the device temperature, errors, wear, and length of time the device has been in use. Example PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-PhysicalDisk | Get-StorageReliabilityCounter | select wear https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/get-storagereliabilitycounter?view=windowsserver2019-ps
SanDisk SSD Dashboard Support Information The SanDisk SSD Dashboard helps users maintain peak performance of the SanDisk SSD in Windows® operating systems with a user-friendly graphical interface for the user. The SanDisk SSD Dashboard includes tools for analysis of the disk (including the disk model, capacity, firmware version, and SMART attributes) and firmware updates. Download: SanDisk … Read more
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From TecMint.com – https://www.tecmint.com/extend-and-reduce-lvms-in-linux/ Previously we have seen how to create a flexible disk storage using LVM. Here, we are going to see how to extend volume group, extend and reduce a logical volume. Here we can reduce or extend the partitions in Logical volume management (LVM) also called as flexible volume file-system. Extend/Reduce LVMs … Read more
From TecMint.com – https://www.tecmint.com/find-linux-filesystem-type/ A file system is the way in which files are named, stored, retrieved as well as updated on a storage disk or partition; the way files are organized on the disk. A file system is divided in two segments called: User Data and Metadata (file name, time it was created, modified … Read more