Monthly Archives: October 2014

Linux AD authentication with transitive trusts…

My big accomplishment for the day was getting Linux authentication working through an Active Directory one-way transitive trust with winbind and kerberos…
Yeah, nobody at work had any idea what I was talking about either. They just heard my maniacal laugh as I ran out of the building…

Interesting Article on Cloud Migrations

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/17/cloud_migration/

Python SSL Analyzer

https://github.com/nabla-c0d3/sslyze

Good Article on Docker and Windows

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/16/windows_containers_deep_dive/

Browser Test Page for Poodle Vulnerability

https://www.poodletest.com/

 

Reference for configuring xorg-edgers ppa for NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu

http://www.binarytides.com/install-nvidia-drivers-ubuntu-14-04/

Possible fix for Chrome/Pepperflash/Shockwave crashes on Linux

Found at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=410805

## download stable to /tmp/chrome
mkdir -p /tmp/chrome
cd /tmp/chrome
wget http://mirror.pcbeta.com/google/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_37.0.2062.94-1_amd64.deb

## split out the archive
ar vx google-chrome-stable_37.0.2062.94-1_amd64.deb

## extract data
tar --lzma -xvf data.tar.lzma

## copy libpepflashplayer.so & manifest.json to /opt/chrome
cp opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/* /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/

# open chrome and test...

You may want to keep a copy of libpepflashplayer.so & manifest.json  around to replace upgraded versions with until this is fixed. Be sure that you enable click-to-play to help prevent malicious flash programs.