Posts made by EddieJennings

@gjacobse Purchased a Protectli device. I'll have Fedora running on it acting as a router.

Sketching out nftables for home router project.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reinstalling Windows

Reminds me of the Windows song a fellow (and elder) Linux admin taught me a couple of years ago:

Shutdown, format, reinstall!
Doo dah! Doo dah!

As you know almost all drivers are a part of the kernel itself. There isn't a way to "export" them in the way that you're thinking -- at least not that I'm aware. If you installed a package that included a 3rd party hardware driver, perhaps you can just download the rpm or deb file from its repo to back it up. Some kernel modules (or groups of kernel modules) are the drivers for some hardware, and you could potentially backup those files to load later. I haven't had hardware that has required special kernel modules that would create that situation.

To be honest, if that system crashes, reinstalling your Linux distribution will be your method of getting drivers for your hardware :).

I know it's not your ideal, but have you tried to use /etc/crypttab and store the key in a file somewhere that's owned by root and has 400 permissions, just to see if that method can do the automatic unlocking of the encrypted device?

If you're making said file that /etc/crypttab will use remember to do echo -n 'whatever' > yourfile, instead of just echo, else you'll bang your head against the wall not understanding why the stored password isn't working. Ask me how I know.

A little late, but an achievement was unlocked on New Year's Eve: RHCA

I might have read the tone of your post wrong, but I feel compelled to share my philosophy on certs.

"Chase the skill, not the cert."

Take some time and effort to think through some goals ("Cybersec world" is quite large). Afterward, think through the skills you need achieve the goals. Lastly, determine how to develop the skills. That step is what leads you to find a cert that can provide a curriculum for learning what's necessary to develop the skills.

For example.

So now I have made up my mind to pursue both CISSP and CCSP. I read that CCSP is a nice compliment to CISSP even though most of CCSP information overlaps with some of CISSP.

If you haven't done so already, be able to describe what specifically you hope to learn from going through those certs, and how it helps you achieve the $goal. If you can already describe this, great! If not, you might save yourself some time and money by taking a step back and thinking stuff through, which it sounds like you did with the Fortinet certs.

The quality and effectiveness of meetings varies greatly. For my environment, calls where we're brainstorming a problem or hashing out some details of how $the_thing should be approached tend to be the most effective. These meetings tend to be rare and usually result from trying to work on a problem over chat where it's determined voice and visual aids are going to be more effective for communication.

In my experience, majority of meetings are unfocused, which leads to everyone's time being wasted, or are meetings for announcements only without any need (or intention) for real-time collaboration -- the meeting that could've been an E-mail.

I've never dealt with Datapower, but I suspect there's a configuration file related to datapower-control that may need some editing.

EX362 = passed yesterday. Starting now on preparing for EX342, the last on the journey to RHCA.

@scottalanmiller Ha! Yeah. . .

Reading about trusts between Red Hat Identity Management and Active Directory.

Practicing installation of Red Hat Identity Manager.

Catching up on some Flock to Fedora sessions.

Digging into kerberos.

@Obsolesce Looks like a spiral fracture. That's no joke. Try to stay ahead of the pain while you recover.

Red Hat EX467 = pass. On to the next, EX362

Red Hat EX467 exam prep

It's clear a non-trivial amount of effort went into making that. Opening and closing reminded me of some Karlheinz Stockhausen music I heard during undergrad.

Practicing Ansible Automation Platform installation scenarios.