Tag Archives: Ubuntu

Integrating SSH PKI with Active Directory using PBIS-Open on Ubuntu 16.04

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Ahmed Tawfik

Long Article Warning! You can skip all this and go directly to the script at the end. This resolves the dilemma of managing SSH public keys on servers that are integrated with Active Directory using PBIS-Open, it allows you to … Continue reading →

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How to call GitHub REST API from Ubuntu

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Ahmed Tawfik

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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Force PKI and Password authentication simultaneously on Ubuntu

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Ahmed Tawfik

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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Build large environments in no time on Ubuntu using conjure-up

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Ahmed Tawfik

Whether you need to build a Kubernets cluster, an openstack instance, a hadoop cluster…etc, Canonical has developed a tool called conjure-up. This tool can build these whole environments for the purpose of development and testing, or small environments in a … Continue reading →

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What to do if docker on Ubuntu doesn’t recognize addition of a user to its group when using PBIS with AD

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Ahmed Tawfik

You add a user to group docker so that you can run docker commands without having to be root or a sudoer. On an Ubuntu 16.04 server which authenticates against AD using PBIS, I added users to group docker, but … Continue reading →

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