Did your iPhone lock tonight with the expiration of iOS 5 Beta 7? Yup, so did mine! Need to back it up? I have a solution for you that I just found: Diskaid. Read More
Restrict SSH access by country IP via hosts.allow and hosts.deny
Do you want to have SSH and/or SFTP available on your Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, etc.) server and tired of seeing malicious IP’s from other countries trying to brute force into your server? I have an easy and quick solution for you. This is currently only written for US people, but if you read carefully you can easily apply this to your own country. This simple trick uses your hosts.deny and hosts.allow files to restrict what IP addresses can access your server via SSH. Read More
VBS to display all users in Active Directory by Group
This script, run on your Active Directory controller, will give you an html display of all users in Active Directory based on group. This is a very handy script for me as I use it to run a weekly internal audit report for our operations management. I’m not sure of the exact source of this code. I know I didn’t write it from scratch, but I believe I piecemealed it together over time about a year or so ago. If I find the original author or if you are the original author please let me know and I’ll make sure to give full credit. Read More
Mingetty and it’s out of control CPU usage
In my recent experience with virtually hosted web servers, I ran into a problem where mingetty was taking a large amount of CPU usage. I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Thanks to this post, I have finally figured it out. Read More
Visual Basic Script to Display all Users in Active Directory with “Not Expiring Passwords”
Recently, I was requested to give an auditor a list of all users with “non-expiring” passwords in Active Directory. After doing a little digging on the internet, I compiled this based on some stuff I found, and made my own additions.
This will create a file, called: NeverExpires.txt – See line: 6 if you want to change it. Now for the instructions: Read More