Secure Shell might be the greatest component of Linux and the best gem to come from the Open Source community, enabling countless systems to connect to one-another and allowing the secure communication of systems both manually and programmatically with very little complexity, yet despite this people still appear to struggle with it, especially admins from a Windows background. Keys Vs Passwords There’s a significant downside to using a username and . . .
I’m just going to throw it out there, I love working with security, cryptography and certificates. it wasn’t always that way and like a lot of people I used to recoil in horror of the idea of having to work with certificates. In my experience that’s not an uncommon scenario to be in, it’s almost a universally loathed task to have to work with certs and it boils down to . . .
After seeing this configuration deployed in enterprise I struggled to understand how it worked, so I picked up a UniFi AC-AP access point second hand and set around seeing how to do it using open source platforms. Knowing that this required a certificate authority to work and RADIUS I figured I could eventually get it to work, but having never used RADIUS to any great degree it wasn’t without it’s . . .
Once upon a time I used to rely on nothing but a Secure Shell for access to my internal network, however this became more and more impractical the more things I stood up on the network and the more things I needed access to from my phone the less time I spent carrying a laptop with me. Given my long time favouritism for OpenVPN and how much the platform had . . .