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Display user account info in a Windows AD

Posted in Work on 29 May 2010 | Comments?
Tags: cli, windows

(Hell just froze over! I’m actually using Active Directory! In Windows! {Well, I did use Active Directory in a previous job, but that was because of LDAP…} {And I’m using waaay too many exclamation marks!} Anyway: it’s the command line — gosh, I miss the C:\ prompt. Not!) To display user info in an Active [...]

Zypper clean-up

Posted in Work on 28 May 2010 | Comments?
Tags: linux, opensource, suse

So I was having this problem updating some Kerberos 5 patches in my SuSE test environment — apparently a patch RPM was broken. I tried fixing that by downloading them directly, not using sudo /usr/bin/zypper up but sudo /bin/rpm -Uvh krb5.patch.rpm instead. No dice. Since there was no yum clean equivalent in the Zypper version [...]

Bypassing SSH strict checking

Posted in Work on 18 February 2010 | 2 comments
Tags: security, ssh, tips

I use an SSH gateway for work (one that requires two-factor authentication: an RSA SecureID PIN and an AES-encrypted Kerberos password). Problem is, since the gateway servers are clustered and change often, I sometimes get the following: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING [...]

Great places to work?

Posted in Work on 30 December 2008 | 4 comments
Tags: fun, tech, workplace

Joel Spolsky wrote about his software company’s amazing new office. I am drooling with envy right now: private offices, free lunches, showers (!). I wonder if we have other great places to work here in the Philippines. I know of at least two: Orange and Bronze* and G2VC with their TechBar in Ortigas. Reminds me [...]

Using screen

Posted in Play, Work on 14 October 2008 | Comments?
Tags: cli, linux, opensource, productivity, reference, screen, unix

My work setup is like this: I have two monitors, one for a maximized Thunderbird window, and the other for a PuTTY window, Firefox, Outlook (minimized to tray, and only used for calendar reminders mostly), and IE. Well, I do open other windows, but I tend to use the above most often. I use PuTTY [...]