Find them und patch them…
I want to start this post by pointing out that the title is like something you’d find in a classic German war movie. Except this time, it’s about servers. Anyway, I got this email from a reader: Hi Linux Guy,…
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The while-read loop controversy…
For about as long as I’ve been able to spell “bash”, I’ve seen the debates on the ‘Net about the proper way to use the shell to loop through a text file line-by-line (rather than item-by-item). Of the small handful…
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Using the shell to transform an Exchange email list…
Recently, I needed to create a one-address-per-line email address list, using only an existing Exchange group mailbox as input. First we start in Windows… I opened Outlook and prepared to create a new email and typed in the email group. …
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Bash Ping Test for Domain Controllers
DNS can be a funny and unpredictable beast. It is paramount that the DNS environment be stable and standardized in large environments, as well as small. But in large environments particularly, you run into some weird happenings… Like for instance,…
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WordPress Jetpack On An Older Linux Server
Unless you are a regular reader to this blog and were here anyway, I’m guessing you stumbled on it from a search because youre having a problem with the Jetpack plugin for WordPress. Well, well, well. Recently, I also forced…
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Finding KMS Violators in the Enterprise
I use bash to do almost everything. Even when I’m neck-deep in Windows and I need to solve a problem, my first thought is a bash script. Recently, I was working in a large distributed enterprise that utilizes Microsoft KMS…
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How to do LDAPS queries from Linux to Active Directory pt. 5
Sub-Title: “Getting more than 1000 results from your LDAP(S) query to AD” This is part 5 in a series of 5 posts on this subject; for background, please also see part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4. By…
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How to do LDAPS queries from Linux to Active Directory pt. 4
Sub-Title: “What if you don’t know the exact certificate subject of the AD server?” This is part 4 in a series of 5 posts on this subject; for background, please also see part 1, part 2, part 3, and part…
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How to do LDAPS queries from Linux to Active Directory pt. 3
Sub-Title: “Escaping commas in LDAP(S) queries to AD” This is part 3 in a series of 5 posts on this subject; please also see part 1, part 2, part 4, and part 5. If the username in your query has…
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How to do LDAPS queries from Linux to Active Directory pt. 2
Sub-Title: “An easier way to export a MS AD CA root cert…” After the popularity of my first post on this subject, I’ve decided to write a couple follow-ups to add some more tips around this subject. As a result,…
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