@mohshami

Geek and Proud

 Amman, Jordan
blog.al-shami.net
Joined May 2009
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Hi @mwlauthor, I'm reading the SSH Mastery book and loving it. Currently in the certificate section. I got the certificates to work but users have to be created on the hosts. Is there a way to have users created on first log in like with LDAP? Thanks a million for all your work
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Serving maintenance pages directly from HAProxy shami.blog/2021/07/maintenan…

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Edit: 31/7/2021: Add content for maintenance pages. I currently work with a group of very smart individuals and I learn a lot from them on almost daily basis. One thing they have done which I found...

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HOWTO - Build a Keycloak/Ubuntu/MariaDB Cluster Without Multicast UDP shami.blog/2021/07/howto-bui…

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I’ve been trying to learn more about Keycloak lately but two things kept frustrating me; a lot of the information available online doesn’t work and cloud providers blocking multicast UDP. I lost my...

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New article Letsencrypt Pre-renew Hooks shami.blog/2021/07/letsencry…

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Acmetool used to be my go-to tool for LetsEncrypt. It was quick and simple to set up. As a user, my favorite part of the Golang ecosystem is that binary files are statically linked. You don’t have to...

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HOWTO - Letsencrypt Certificates for pfSense shami.blog/2021/07/howto-let…

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I recently helped a friend set up pfSense as a VPN server/firewall for his colocated rack. We wanted SSH and the web configurator to be accessible from a set of static IPs.

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HOWTO - Letsencrypt certificates for localhost shami.blog/2021/07/howto-let…

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A few days ago I discovered *.localtest.me which is a neat service that allows you to access localhost with multiple hostnames allowing the creation of multiple development sites without having to...

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Generating Keycloak access tokens with curl shami.blog/2021/07/generate-…

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I’ve been working more with Keycloak lately and I’m loving it. But one thing I wanted to do while testing is to generate access tokens easily. Today I wrote a small wrapper script and thought I...

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Back up multiple ZFS datasets with zxfer shami.blog/2021/06/back-up-m…

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ZFS has been one of my favorite tools since I discovered it in 2014. I can’t count how many times it has saved me from disasters. I’ve even had systems that wouldn’t boot but still managed to recover...

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Latest article, Using Dynamic DNS with pf, iptables, and gomplate. Add a layer of security to your servers for free shami.blog/2021/06/using-dyn…

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It is always better to tighten the firewall configuration on your servers. Limiting SSH connections from a defined list of IP addresses greatly reduces the attack surface as well as load; the...

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Can someone explain why this #Palestinian boy is being treated so cruelly? xitter.cf/cxzsyou/status/1400960…
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دينا بركات@Dinabaraket36 Jun 2021
ضحكتك لحالها ثورة ضد الاحتلال. #منى_الكرد_حرة
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Though convenient, you might not want to use the Windows 10 OpenSSH Agent ow.ly/xHOp50F30pa

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I have recently switched to using Sublime Merge as my Git client. I know other clients have the same features but for me Sublime Merge is just a pleasure to use.

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Latest article, writing reusable Terraform code, part 3 ow.ly/Fd0L50F1JC6

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In part 1 and part 2 I briefly talked about modules and workspaces. This time I will take things a bit further.

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Check out my latest article series, first 2 parts ow.ly/uVke50ERW6A and ow.ly/ielv50ERW6B

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I’m fairly new to Terraform, yes I have been using it for the past 2 or 3 years, but my use-case was quite simple; Create a few servers in DigitalOcean or Hetzner, install a web stack, and use the...

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My first blog post in a while ow.ly/YvRa50EHvlB

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It’s been a long time since I have added anything to my blog; I wanted to update my site to use the newer version of Hugo. I also wanted to update the theme to remove some of the older componets and...

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INX ZA@inx_za30 Jan 2020
#helloafrica. you can now download the world’s best server operating system, geolocated to your favourite #community #ixp. thank you @freebsdfndation for supporting this mirror. #FreeBSD #peeringisgoodforyou
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