@IRJ said in Can someone help explain this alias part to me?:

@travisdh1 said in Can someone help explain this alias part to me?:

@IRJ said in Can someone help explain this alias part to me?:

This is actually a decent explanation of what I am trying to do:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/108735-scanning-linux-devices-with-non-root-user

That original one, while technically correct, seems purposely made more difficult to me.

Ugh, that thread, don't name your custom script the same thing as the program being run, FFS.

This is where I have to ask, what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Just grab system information with dmidecode, or something different?

https://www.tenable.com/blog/configuring-least-privilege-ssh-scans-with-nessus

All right, not the greatest tutorial/how-to ever. You should only need a single user to accomplish this, so the whole group and alias conversation is pointless.

Just follow the rest of that tutorial, adding only the needed programs to the sudoers file.

nessus_user ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/program1, /usr/bin/program2

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

NY just raised the smoking age to 21!

So all 18 year old smokers need to stock up on 3 years worth in the next 120 days.

@IRJ First off, generate the key as the user, just to make everything that much simpler. Use sudo if you have to.

sudo - scan_user keygen

Then copy the public key wherever.

sudo - scan_user ssh-copy-id scan_user@wherever

If those throw an error, try without the - (that tells sudo to fully load the scan_user profile.)

No mussing about with permissions, they are set coherently already.

As @DustinB3403 said, Nessus will have to support the encryption. If they don't support at least RSA, all these "security" things they tell you to do is not worth anything.

@scottalanmiller said in Any Camera People Here?:

@jmoore said in Any Camera People Here?:

When I did A/V consulting a long time Canon and Sony were the best options. They had real high end cameras and others that were really good value. Not sure if that still holds true but maybe a place to start for you. For good prices try B&H Professional.

Nikon man here. Nikon and Lumix are what I use.

For any sort of even hobby level stuff, the real investment is lenses, not camera bodies.

Thanks for posting this. I know how interesting their instructions are thanks to your adventures yesterday.

Brian Krebs did a good write-up on this.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/what-you-should-know-about-the-equifax-data-breach-settlement/

@scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
I thought it was cool at the time.

It was awesome for it's time.

@Dashrender said in Equifax claims process is now open:

@Nic said in Equifax claims process is now open:

@Dashrender nice! I put in for the 10 years protection, and the full 20 hours for $500. I had my Paypal hacked twice last year, despite having (shitty phone based) 2FA and security questions in place. They were cloning my SIM and resetting my password. The hackers ended up spending $700 on a fake Airbnb listing. Paypal did get me the money back, but I spend a long time online playing whack-a-mole with password resets and on the phone with Paypal.

Holy hell dude! They cloned your SIM? so what, that's pretty easy to to do? Or did they call the carrier and socially engineer them to change the phone to their SIM?

Extremely easy to socially engineer the phone companies into sending/changing a SIM card. Like with just publicly available information stupidly simple.

@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.

After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.

@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

https://www.amazon.com/Charging-Certified-Magnetic-Wireless-Compatible/dp/B07TV1NY6M/

umm, is it just me or are the reviews and questions for this product all over the place? I've seen people post wrong reviews before, but this is way beyond anything I've seen before. Soap, phone case, dress, medicine, gauge, purse? All in the reviews. This charger must do it all.

This is hilarious. I've seen them merge products before, but this goes beyond the normal.

Wow, something screwed up a database but good.

@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

I love this software... it updates faster than I can can install them.

Turn on automatic updates, silly person.

This thread brings to mind Linus Torvalds when asked about Nvidia "F*** Nvidia" was his response. He doesn't like Nvidia and what they pull with their proprietary drivers. Most linux users don't, because of these same sort of issues @kamidon.

@RojoLoco said in New equipment and how people lose their minds.:

This doesn't have anything to do with new equipment, but when the time changes in the fall, everyone in Atlanta forgets that they know how to drive in the dark.

Take the average intelligence level, let 6 months pass. Now what's the % that remember how to do any given thing?

If NE Ohio and winter is any indication, it's about 5%, grrr.

@It-Unicorn said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:

i'm sad panda . Lee Y and Chris W. gone. Brilliant minds.

I think they had a great idea, but screwed up on implementing it. Their back end was insanely complex when there was no reason for it to be.

I'd have to say no. A vast majority of the problems I have with adds stem from 3rd party add services that don't even look at the adds they are serving until an issue occurs, and even then they often ignore it. Recent example are the Chrome extensions that were silently installing from 3rd party add banners, because everyone wants to see the latest news on the Kardashians popping up like it's a Windows notification.

Sites that host their own advertising keep have a much more vested interest in keeping that junk off their system.

There are some sites that are just horrible, even after being filtered by PiHole and add blockers. They won't get mentioned here tho.

No, it was Invisible Bob

@BraswellJay Just a note for next time, from the installer you can ctrl+alt+F2, this will drop you into a console where you can fix these kinds of issues without needing to boot into another thing.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

30 years in IT and I'm excited that my new $13 keyboard arrives today.

My only "fancy" keyboard was won in a contest on SW.

This is the "Amazon Basics" keyboard. But I love their $6 mice so figured I'd try the keyboard as mine is old and getting "sticky".

I swear by the Aukey one I have, tho it was $50 when I bought it. https://www.amazon.com/AUKEY-Mechanical-Keyboard-Anti-ghosting-Water-Resistant/dp/B01N0XQI2A/ref=pd_cp_147_1?pd_rd_w=j7sv1&pf_rd_p=ef4dc990-a9ca-4945-ae0b-f8d549198ed6&pf_rd_r=R4X6HCPMAX341RYEZYAB&pd_rd_r=d90bebaf-0982-4acd-82f2-0ca73088f397&pd_rd_wg=WO4W1&pd_rd_i=B01N0XQI2A&psc=1&refRID=R4X6HCPMAX341RYEZYAB

I'm curious, why do you swear by it?

Mostly because I can type all day long and not cause issues with pain in my wrists. I might be able to care less about the lighting thing, but it would be difficult.

@Obsolesce said in KVM and Back Ups:

@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:

@scottalanmiller said in KVM and Back Ups:

@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:

In my experience with it, it has often corrupted randomly and to the point that it's own snapshots are no help, nor are VMware Snapshots.

How could it correct VMware snapshots?

I guess it's more that BtrFS doesn't detect the corruption early enough and our VMware snapshot are nothing but snapshots of corrupt data... That's about the only way I can explain it.

Needs to catch up to ReFS

Which itself needs to catch up to ZFS, gluster, md+LVM+any decent filesystem, etc.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Thanks @BRRABill for hooking me up with a rack

I've now explained cable porn and nice rack IT speak to the girlfriend. I don't think she really gets either