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Applications GPG

GnuPrivacyGuard basics These are the bare-bones instructions to get you going. Reading the docume...

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GPG-aware mail clients and plugins

Applications GPG

(Note, 2024: man, the '90s were a long time ago, right?) You may find a starting point here: www...

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GPG Key Server Operations

Applications GPG

The server subkeys.pgp.net is the preferred keyserver (for various reasons expounded at length el...

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insecure memory

Applications GPG

Basically this boils down to the application being unable to exclusively lock the memory page bec...

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About GPG

Applications GPG

You may have been directed to this page by Dave's email signature, and because you noticed some k...

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makeinfo build error

Linux CentOS 6

2013-05-15 Problem Building gcc 4.1.2 on CentOS 6 halts with the error: WARNING: `makeinfo' is mi...

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DHCP Reservation Not Working

Linux Fedora 23

A: dhclient now supports RFC-4361! (Please note that this is an answer to a question nobody asked...

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Upgrading Fedora

Linux Fedora 30

(2019-03-18) Problem I want to update Fedora to another version. In General It is recommended to ...

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Set Hostname To VM Name

Linux Fedora 30

(2019-11-28) Problem /t Solution For whatever reason, the vmware-tools package (and the open-vm-t...

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Samba AD Controller Notes

Linux Fedora 30

(2019-11-25) Backplot At a new customer site, I inherited a Active Domain that was hosted on a Sa...

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Join AD

Linux Fedora 30

(2019-11-28) Problem # realm -v -U dave join mydomain.local [...] ! Couldn't create computer acc...

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Firewalld Limit Remote Source Connections

Linux Fedora 27

(2019-02-14) Problem I have an internet-facing service that I want to restrict to a particular (s...

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Example nmcli Commands

Linux Fedora 27

(2018-10-15) Problem nmcli Solution Some recently discovered examples: # nmcli con # nmcli con s...

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PPTP VPN Client

Linux Fedora 27

(2018-04-30) Setting A PPTP VPN Client You have to set the firewall to accept GRE tunnel traffic:...

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Starting httpd

Linux Fedora 25

Problem How do I start up httpd in this brave new systemd world? Solution Firewall (note your zon...

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Install nfsen 1.3.6p1

Linux Fedora 25

(2016-12-02) Problem How do I get nfsen 1.3.6p1 running on Fedora Server 25? Disclaimer Works for...

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firewalld

Linux Fedora 25

(2016-12-06) God help me, this is firewalld After you make a change, reload the firewall to make ...

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SSH No Key Exchange method found

Linux Fedora 35

(2022-11-02) Problem # ssh 192.168.2.91 Unable to negotiate with 192.168.2.91 port 22: no matchin...

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VM under VMWare Player won't resize screen on drag

Linux Fedora 34

Problem A VM running under VMWare Player won't dynamically resize the "screen" on drag or full-sc...

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Test TLS version

Linux Fedora 34

(2021-10-06) Problem Does this device support TLS v1.0 (or 1.1 or 1.2 or 1.3) Solution $ openssl ...

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