@coliver said:

Do VPN connections get created/torn down with every communication? Or are they persistent until the device disconnects?

Normally neither. They are normally persistent until a certain amount of time, then they tear down when idle. Might be hours or days. That way they don't remain absolutely forever, but normally a very long time.

That was a good show, really was.

I should email that to everyone here.

@scottalanmiller said:

FUD

I'm sad to say I had to look this up, and it wasn't nearly what I thought it would be.

@Dashrender said:

@travisdh1 said:

Just think, we have to deal with these incompetent people every year. Maybe @scottalanmiller got out at the right time?

He still has to file though.

Sadly

OH - sigh!

Yeah yeah - fine.

UBTN is username cap sensitive...

@coliver said:

repadmin /replicate DC1 DC2 dc=domain,dc=com

So I have have limited success.. but success was made. I the user I created on the other end,.. is now on the local AD.

I'll look at this more,.. but think it's otherwise solved.

@dafyre said:

Scratch that... I was able to figure it out.

The configuration that you posted by default denies everything but SSH.

Thanks!

Correct 🙂

@travisdh1 said in UNIX: The /etc/shadow File in Depth:

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@travisdh1 said in UNIX: The /etc/shadow File in Depth:

Man, I did just sneak in after /etc/shadow became standard in the 90s.

I was just before it.

I was way after.

Is this where I yell "Get off my lawn you young whippersnapper!"?

It's certainly where I do.

@brianlittlejohn said:

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I'm sure this goes against every best practice, but when I'm doing a bunch of admin stuff i issue a sudo bash and open up a new bash shell with sudo privileges

Not uncommon, and I do that a bit too (I use sudo -i su) but one of the good things about that is that it still tracks your user, it does not treat you as root for auditing.

@Breffni-Potter said:

If you don't own the PC why do you have local admin.

I think that you'll find that if you have the local admin... you do own the PC 😉

@Dashrender said:

When I was first hanging my own shingle as an IT consultant we were suggesting to all of our clients that they should purchase and install AV everywhere.

Even in the 1990s that was ridiculous. How does someone manage to get enough money to start a business or hire an IT consultant but doesn't have the brain power to use AV?

@travisdh1 said:

@johnhooks said:

@travisdh1 said:

#HelpDeskFail "“So I called up, told them I was new and I didn't understand how to get past [the portal],” the hacker told Motherboard. “They asked if I had a token code, I said no, they said ‘that's fine — just use our one.’”"

You mean they didn't crawl through the vents and hang from the ceiling over a pressure sensitive floor?

You forgot the egregious body shots of a woman crawling though "laser" lights.

Bright lasers, so that you can clearly see them and her, of course.

@scottalanmiller I almost never use them. A few service accounts and that's about it.

Seems like maybe they should have noticed, but does not seem like the breach or issue was really all that big.

Lots of fake reviews, probably not the biggest deal.

It would not be unlikely for the power of this workstation to be comparable to more than the processing capabilities of a fully populated Proliant DL580 quad CPU Xeon server.

@Reid-Cooper do have any documents for the steps to be taken or how this works. So i will recommended to download and check with it.

Here's a quick version.

https://www.variantweb.net/blog/creating-a-gpg-key-on-fedora-22/

I have it installed. Just dropped the forwarder on the firewall so far. So it alerts me whenever something gets by the first box.... no alerts so far (I'd knock on wood if I could.)

@Nic said:

And if you have to, at the very least wipe the machine and start from scratch with your own image.

Now, that used to work. 🙂 Now it does not.