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Testing the new WordPress Mobile Editor

Posted on December 21, 2017 by SoCRaT

So far so good!

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How to call GitHub REST API from Ubuntu

Posted on December 20, 2017 by SoCRaT

In brief, I needed to get a list of the members currently in my organization at GitHub. There are multiple ways to do so, including: Direct calls to the API from curl sudo apt install curl Python using PyGitHub pip … Continue reading →

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A nice way to show progress when copying files

Posted on December 10, 2017 by SoCRaT

The cp command is not really good with that, there are some ways to do it, but unnecessarily complicated. The best option is to use rsync instead: rsync –progress source destination It will show you something like this: 3885367296 0% … Continue reading →

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Force PKI and Password authentication simultaneously on Ubuntu

Posted on November 23, 2017 by SoCRaT

I use AD authentication in my environment (for password-based authentication) Current Scenario A valid AD user logs in to the Ubuntu Linux server via SSH That user adds his public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys for passwordless login I disable/lock/delete the AD … Continue reading →

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Search for an AD user using PBIS and userid

Posted on September 17, 2017 by SoCRaT

Let’s say I have a user id in Linux 234234234 and I need to check which user that represents in Active Directory. All I need is: pbis enum-users | grep -B 5 -A 5 234234234 where: enum-users: returns all users … Continue reading →

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