I upgraded MariaDB from 10.11 to 11.4 a few months ago and everything appeared to go smoothly until trouble brewed a few days later. After restarting MariaDB following a minor update, MariaDB bombed out with an error. After unsuccessfully troubleshooting for an hour, I bit the bullet and rolled back to a previous backup. What I didn't know at the time, was this was the beginning of my journey down...
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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...
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NGINX: Reject Unwanted Traffic
Awhile back, I posted a guide about Migrating from Apache to NGINX and 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...
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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 Optimization which ensures that the Wordfence plugin...
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Running Cisco ASDM under Linux
Recently I had the need to configure an ASA while onsite at a customer's office and while I have experience making changes through the console, it's a lot easier for some things to be configured through Cisco's ASDM. At the time, I was in a rush so instead of trying to get ASDM to run on Ubuntu, I ended up booting into Windows and gaining access that way. One of...
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