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I want to install Windows on my PC on a partition that should take up the entire disk, but I want only, say, the first half or quarter of it to be usable, and reserve the rest (for some infosec thing I’m experimenting with).
Again just to … Continue reading Limit Windows NTFS for only its first half to be writable [migrated]
Besides Pokémon, there might have been no greater media franchise for a child of the 90s than the Transformers, mysterious robots fighting an intergalactic war but which can inexplicably change …read more Continue reading Open-Source Robot Transforms
How would someone change IP address to dead so it says dead just like that how how would it work because I’ve had it like that an also like192.168.dead.
Would there be any security concerns saving mongod.conf to $HOME/web-server/mongod.conf instead of /etc/mongod.conf ?
If the config was under $HOME/web-server/mongod.conf would that mean someone (or a buffer-overrun executable) could chang… Continue reading putting database mongod.conf under $HOME/web-server/. instead of /etc/
I saw on the snort manual an setting for the Session global processor called flush_on_alert that I’m interested in. However, when I tried to edit snort.conf to add the setting, I recieved an error upon running snort.
ERROR: /etc/snort/snor… Continue reading Snort 2.9.16 Session config flush_on_alert too many parameters error
Is there a variable I can use to fill the openssl.cnf file with the Linux server hostname?
I know you can use -subj fields, but I specifically want to prefill the openssl.cnf if possible as I can then use it elsewhere in the configuration … Continue reading Using the server hostname as a variable in openssl.cnf for the CN?
Some services like ejabberd, nginx for authenticating using a database, and dovecot requires providing the database password as plain text in the configuration file. Is it safe to store MariaDB password as plain text provided that processe… Continue reading Is it safe to store database credentials as plain text in the configuration file?
I have an SSH key for work that I do NOT want to be offered by the forwarding agent anywhere but the work hosts.
So I thought following ~/.ssh/config could do the trick:
Host *
ForwardAgent yes
IdentitiesOnly yes
IdentityFile ~… Continue reading Making sure that SSH key is NOT used anywhere but specific hosts
This is for an app service + database I am pushing up to Azure. I am using Key Vault + Managed Identity for the secrets. I have several connection strings in the secrets to ApplicationInsights, etc.
These connection strings have a key, pas… Continue reading What’s the tradeoff of storing a connection string vs the password as a secret?
I am trying integrate our service with SSO. I have generated the ClientID and ClientSecret.
Is it a good security practice to store the ClientID and ClientSecret as a configmap? If not, what are the alternatives for storing and using them?… Continue reading How to store ClientID and ClientSecret in a K8 Env