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Provisioning Titan Security Keys From Linux

Google has released their own multifactor authentication hardware tokens: Titan Security Keys. Configuring your Google account to require the hardware keys is typically pretty straightforward but they must be added from a computer. When I was trying from my Linux system the process would always error out, just stating "something …

Manually Removing a Disk from a Synology RAID

While rearranging my storage configuration in my homelab, I ran into a situation where I wanted to redo the layout of a fully provisioned Synology NAS. In this case, all disks were used in a single RAID 6 array, giving a two disk fault tolerance. I had already cleared off …

Let's Encrypt for Nginx Behind CloudFlare

I decided to try out CloudFlare on this blog to get a better understanding of how it works. The site was already protected with an SSL certificate from (the very awesome) Let's Encrypt service. CloudFlare also gives you a free SSL when you route your site through them, but I …

Suricata on pfSense to ELK Stack

Introduction

Suricata is an excellent Open Source IPS/IDS. While there is an official package for pfSense, I found very little documentation on how to properly get it working. Furthermore, there does not appear to be any native functionality to ship the logs it generates to alternative collectors, other than …

Unziping Files With Powershell v5

One of the best new features in Windows 10 is the upgrade to Powershell 5. Along with a ton of useful new cmdlets (like Invoke-WebRequest), you can now expand zip files natively. The Archive Module actually includes both compression and expansion cmdlets, but I found the unzipping tool the be …

Kiosk Display on Raspbian Jessie

I was recently testing the idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run a Dashing dashboard on a TV. I found several tutorials for kiosk style displays using Raspbian Wheezy but had some trouble getting everything to work on Jessie. I was eventually able to get everything operational with only …

Moving Split Volume Groups

I recently had an issue with a Linux VM that was configured with LVM. The server had run out of space several times and each time it did someone simply added a new primary partition, formatted it to LVM and extended the logical volume. This was all well and good …