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Setting up OpenLDAP & SSSD w/Sudo on Ubuntu 22.04
The reason for creating this guide is I found so many different how-to's on the net that date back over a decade with varying methods of getting OpenLDAP installed, but none got me directly to my final goal of allowing sudo rights to LDAP users. I decided to gather up what I've learned and compile it into one guide for you and my aging brain.
Please keep in mind that even though this guide is ...
Failing to Suppress PHP Deprecated Messages in WordPress with a Workaround
I originally wrote an article on how to suppress PHP deprecated messages in the WordPress Debug Log, however, shortly after publishing the article, I found that my "fix" was actually failing miserably. Since then, I've been trying every method I could find, ...
NGINX: Reject Unwanted Traffic
Awhile back, I posted a guide about Migrating from Apache to NGINXand in one of the steps I mistakenly wrote that you should remove the default NGINX config file. At the time, I believed this would block any unwanted traffic to your web server such as web traffic directed at the server's IP address, but I've since learned that NGINX will actually redirect that traffic to the first server block ...
Avoiding Outages when using Wordfence & NGINX
If you run WordPress, it's a good idea to have some type of security software to protect against the endless attacks waged against your precious websites. One of the most popular security plugins available to mitigate this onslaught is Wordfence.
Wordfence is a free security plugin that offers a lot of features to protect your site, one of which is called Firewall Optimiza ...
Enable User Password Changes on pfSense
If you have pfSense deployed in a business environment, you may have the need for users to be able to change their own account passwords. Some of you may be wondering, why would my users even have an account on my router? The answer, at least in my daily life, would be OpenVPN.
By default, pfSense doesn't allow anyone but the admin user to login, but this guide will show you how to enable ...
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