Thank you for taking a chance for the rest of us

I haven't used them, but their offerings seem promising. Are there are any other reasons for moving away form Linode other than the RAM needs for TaticalRMM?

I've had good experiences with both Xbyte and Stallard Technology as well.

More ridiculous than weird, but what first came to mine was a user demanding that I make sure her company laptop would connect to wireless network at $random_hotel where she was attending an out-of-state sales conference.

@scottalanmiller Have you configured federation for your Synapse server?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Testing Matrix home server deployment while watching baby monitor during infant night shift.

Matrix like Synapse? My Matrix server is NicaHabla.com

Yes, Synapse. Once I'm done testing things, making sure I can do backups, etc., I'll deploy a production one at theshadowvalley.chat.

Testing Matrix home server deployment while watching baby monitor during infant night shift.

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Server "Search Domains":

It's not a LInux thing, it's a general networking thing so the same on desktops, Windows, wherever.

This is correct. If I recall right, within the Windows network config GUI, it's called a "domain suffix.".

@CCWTech If you try to resolve a name that isn't a FQDN, your resolver will try to resolve that name + the search domain.

If you set that to foo.com, and you try to run ping bar, to resolve what bar is (unless you have it defined in /etc/hosts), your resolve will try to resolve bar.foo.com for the ping.

After your install, if you look at /etc/resolv.conf you should see the search domains value in there.

@scottalanmiller said in Recommendation for home WiFi router:

MT is good. I always prefer a dedicated router/firewall. Then my APs separate.

I do the same. My router at home is my own creation using netfilter / nftables, and APs are (soon to be refreshed) Unifi.

I wish MeshCentral had Wayland desktop support. I wish I had the time to acquire the knowledge to help them implement it.

Looking through strace output and ignoring Telegram spam.

Reading about configuring the Kea DHCP server.

@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.