Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/12
[WayBack] Insomnia REST Client A powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
Source code at [WayBack] GitHub – getinsomnia/insomnia: The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴.
Via: [WayBack] Paw is nice – The Isoblog.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/12
For my reading list: Bash Notes for Professionals book
Download: [WayBack] BashNotesForProfessionals.pdf
Via: [WayBack] Bash Notes for Professionals – a book compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation released under Creative Commons BY-SA – ThisIsWhyICode – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/11
Despite clear guidelines (European level since 2016, W3C level since 2018), web accessibility is still hard, both for web site developers and their users.
Two years ago, bumped into a Dutch government web site that had become worse over time: they disabled keyboard paste for numeric fields, only would paste 1 digit at a time, and managed to have the delete button delete the current digit (like what the backspace does and should do) instead of the next.
Please do not do that!
Here are the guidelines: [WayBack] Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
This is the (Dutch) story:
[WayBack] Thread by @jpluimers: “Beste @Waternet, waarom kan ik niet meer het hele opnamenummer in 1 keer plakken? Cijfertje voor cijfertje uit de gescippen plakken is nogal veel werk. Vroeger ging dit wel goed. plakken werkt niet met het toetsenbord: alleen m […]”
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Beste @Waternet, waarom kan ik niet meer het hele opnamenummer in 1 keer plakken? Cijfertje voor cijfertje uit de gescande brief knippen plakken is nogal veel werk. Vroeger ging dit wel goed.… “
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “plakken werkt niet met het toetsenbord: alleen maar met de muis, dus onhandig voor mensen met een beperking. Als je in het veld staat werken alleen de numerieke toetsen en pijltjes van je toetsenbord, en de delete knop haalt het verkeerde karakter weg. Wie verzint die ongein?”
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers Twitterissä: “Bij postcode werkt plakken weer wel (en de rest van het toetsenbord ook helemaal), maar bij meterstand weer niet. Hoe maak je je site onhandig voor mensen met een beperking les 1: het is helemaal gelukt. Jammer! Lees eens … en … “
- [WayBack] Wat is webtoegankelijkheid? – Stichting Accessibility
- [WayBack] Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers Twitterissä: “Bij email adres werkt plakken weer wel (gelukkig, het zijn maar 40 karakters), maar er mist een cruciale stap: meternummer. Die controle is voor adressen met meerdere meters ontzettend belangrijk. Vroeger werd dat wel gecontroleerd. Het invoerproces is dus een achteruitgang.”
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Laatste probleem is een waarschuwing *achteraf* dat jullie geen email bevestiging kunnen sturen. Super onhandig, omdat je op dat moment de stand ook niet meer kunt afdrukken. Er is veel werk voor jullie aan de winkel. Hou me gaarne op de hoogte van de vorderingen. CC @matijn”
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Bij dit soort problemen denk ik altijd aan @matijn en anderen waar toegankelijkheid van onschatbaar belang is. Zo zonde dat organisaties het voor elkaar krijgen om dit te verslechteren in plaats van de verbeteren, ondanks de Europese richtlijnen uit 2016 “
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/11
Below the steps for ensuring port forwardings are up from an OpenSuSE system to an ssh server using autossh on the client system.
Many have written about the benefits of autossh, so I can’t do better than that. A good abbreviated quote is from [WayBack] Autossh for persistent database connectivity – Compose Articles:
Autossh wraps SSH in an application which was designed to monitor the state of the connection. It will also restart SSH if it exits. The idea of the monitoring is that If it sees the packets aren’t going through, it would also restart SSH. …
the developers of OpenSSH added some options –
ServerAliveIntervalandServerAliveCountMax– which activate built in connection checking in OpenSSH. Together the options set checking at a set interval and exiting SSH if the count maximum is exceeded. And when SSH exits, autossh will restart it so it serves as much improved replacement as there’s no extra ports needed.
The scenario is that a client user named autoSshClientUser automatically logs on to a server as user autosshServerUser using autossh from the client system.
The sequence is to first test this manually from the client system using a regular ssh command, then manually with the autossh command from the client system, then automate the starting (and keep alive) of the autossh instance from the client system.
Start configuring the server side first:
autosshServerUser).Then finish confiruging the client side:
zypper install autosshautoSshClientUser has an ssh key that does not require a passwordautosshServerUser on the remote systemautossh command that suits your situation bestautoSshClientUser runs a job at or shortly after system boot (after the network is up) that will start autossh with the correct parametersIf the autoSshClientUser is root, then you could use a service to start autossh, but be sure that service depends on a functioning network connection.
If the autoSshClientUser is not root, then usually a user based cron job works best.
Naming idea:
Train and the server is StationautosshTrainAtStationautosshTrainToStationroot, add he user using [Archive.is]useradd:
--shell /bin/false)-p or --passwordadduser: [WayBack] debian – What does adduser do that useradd doesn’t? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange)
# useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autosshServerUser
root use su to become autosshServerUser, then create an ssh key without a password (you need to specify the logon shell) using [WayBack] ssh-keygen.# su --shell /bin/bash autosshServerUser > cd ~ > whoami autosshServerUser > rm -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub > ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -o -a 100 -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -N '' Generating public/private rsa key pair. Your identification has been saved in /home/autosshServerUser/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/autosshServerUser/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: SHA256:... autossh24@linux The key's randomart image is: +---[RSA 2048]----+ ... +----[SHA256]-----+ > rm -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub > ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -o -a 100 -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -N '' Generating public/private ed25519 key pair. Your identification has been saved in /home/autossh24/.ssh/id_ed25519. Your public key has been saved in /home/autossh24/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub. The key fingerprint is: SHA256:... autossh24@linux The key's randomart image is: +--[ED25519 256]--+ ... +----[SHA256]-----+
I need to check the below links on killing autossh (including the underlying ssh based connection), as you need to use the kill or pkill parameters signals -3 (SIGQUIT), not -9 (SIGKILL) as explained in [WayBack] ssh – How to stop/kill an autossh tunnel? – Super User (thanks mariusmatutiae and dviljoen).
Monitoring the state of the ssh connection needs some parameters (like ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax). A good start on that is [WayBack] networking – autossh does not kill ssh when link down – Server Fault.
Setting up a service so root automatically logs on a remote system:
With non-root, it might actually be possible to do this as a service too given there is a user= parameter in service files:
Though as non-root, most people seem to use cron [WayBack] ssh – Problems with Autossh: running from cron vs terminal – Super User
Please do not use /etc/init.d/after.local as mentioned often (for instance in [WayBack] TUMBLEWEED run a script a boot): this mechanism has been deprecated and won’t work on more recent systems (like 2012 and younger: [WayBack] openSUSE Forums – systemd and using the after.local script in openSUSE 12.1). The same holds for /etc/init.d/boot.local: don’t use, even though many people indicate it works, for instance [WayBack] Run a command at boot.
An interesting approach is at [WayBack] Autossh Startup Script for Multiple Tunnels | Surnia Ulula, though I will stick with what’s below.
Read:
/usr/lib/systemd/system/autossh@.service/usr/share/doc/packages/autossh/README.SUSE.md/usr/share/doc/packages/autossh/my.confDownloads:
Most of the above comes from these links:
–jeroen
Continuation of:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/11
Interesting to monitor (it has a nice RSS feed!) so you can ensure your systems get patched sooner rather than later:
The Exploit Database – Exploits, Shellcode, 0days, Remote Exploits, Local Exploits, Web Apps, Vulnerability Reports, Security Articles, Tutorials and more.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/08
Good instructions from:
A Video below the fold.
Via: [WayBack] SOLVED: Our dymo printer is jammed, it has what looks like – Fixya
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/08
“Unencrypted connection” “This connection is unencrypted. Would you like to continue?”
When you run realVNC to an x11vnc server, even over an ssh tunneled connection, it will produce errors like the screenshots on the right (from an Android device) and below (from a Mac).
Before I had the realVNC client on the Mac, the Android message totally put me on the wrong foot. I tried searching x11vnc encryption, of which almost all results – especially the Google Search abstracts – will talk about ssh tunneling. So tried to setup the client to use the SSH endpoint, but it refused because it doesn’t talk SSH.
So then I installed a desktop realVNC client (in this case on my Mac) and got this message:
“Unencrypted connection” “The connection to this VNC Server will not be encrypted”
Then it occurred to me that maybe the VNC server itself could do encryption as well and would not need an SSH tunnel after all. And it does even in the first hit:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/08
Boy, I totally missed that the Google Photos search has become this smart: [WayBack] 8 Brilliant Search Tools Hidden Within Google Photos:
Google Photos’ search tools have powerful algorithms that are on par with that of Google’s search engine.
Things I tried so far at photos.google.com and they all work, most way better than I anticipated:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/07
Based on [WayBack] How to set default apps on Mac | iMore.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/07
Cool tool:
MultiBootUSB is a cross platform software written in python which allows you to install multiple live linux on a USB disk non destructively and option to uninstall distros. Try out the world’s first true cross platform multi boot live usb creator for free. Download Now!
Information and downloads on [WayBack] MultiBootUSB.
There are actually a few repositories within [WayBack] mbusb (multibootusb) · GitHub of which one has a ruby implementation as well.
A more elaborate article is on [WayBack] How to Install Multiple Linux Distributions on One USB, but the site should get you going just fine.
Via: [WayBack] Multiple Linux distributions on one UBS stick. I just tried it with: * CloneZilla * Lubuntu * LiteLinux The tool they describe – MultiBootUSB – comes w… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 