Sometimes you don’t know or want to change the root password to be able to log into WHM as root (yes I know you shouldn’t log in as root, but sometimes you do). Here’s the command to do that via CLI whmapi1 create_user_session user=root service=whostmgrd locale=en This will return something like to following data: cp_security_token: /cpsess9427258339 expires: '1596644759' locale: en service: whostmgrd session: root:J7omtbeEeUhJ9yPK:create_user_session,yAs86MVYrHT46avjRLAGxhHaEFrFV3Hf url: https://server.domain.com:2087/cpsess9427258339/login/?locale=en&session;=root%2UtnqjEJVUBNo2JnKH%3acreate_user_session%55nNCwxRW4tzqEe6NUYKwWrDM7N485TiYA metadata: command: create_user_session reason: Created session result: 1 version: 1 You will use the URL and it will take you right into WHM

Here’s how to create a cert/csr with more than one domain name. First you’ll want to create the directory. I use NGiNX so I like to put my certs in /etc/nginx/ssl, but you can put yours anywhere So now we will create the directory mkdir /etc/nginx/ssl/domainName Now we will cd into the directory cd /etc/nginx/ssl/domainName Now we will paste the following in the sslConfig.txt file. [req] default_bits = 4096 prompt = no default_md = sha256 req_extensions = req_ext distinguished_name = dn [ dn ] C=US ST=YOURstateHERE L=YOURcityHERE O=YOURorgNAMEhere CN = YOURmainDOMAINhere [ req_ext ] subjectAltName = @alt_names [ alt_names ] DNS.

I noticed an issue where after updating Windows 10 2004 with KB4557957 some printers were no longer working. BetaNews did a good writeup HERE about the issue. Microsoft released a couple off-schedule patches to fix it. HERE is the BetaNews article about it. In short here are the links for the fix’s with the correct Windows 10 version. Windows 10, version 1909 (KB4567512) Windows 10, version 1903 (KB4567512) Windows 10, version 1809 (KB4567513)

Unfortunately it doesn’t appear cPanel allows you to easily change the username. Most documentation I’ve read says to use the “Rearrange an Account” option, but if you only have one disk that doesn’t seem to get you an option. The downside to this is that is doesn’t fully do a normal restore it will restore the new account to the new directory, but it will symlink the old username to the new directory.

First you have to install acme.sh. I like using acme.sh because it’s all bash based. As with all posts I take no responsibility for anything and this is more of a quick help instead of a full guide. I have a script that I use to deploy my WordPress sites. The only thing I recommend is if you use it make sure to add the xml-rpc.php block. I haven’t added that to it yet.

There error comes in many forms one of the forms are “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.” If you’re able to log into the machine as a local admin it’s easy, you just do the following. Use a local administrator account to log on to the computer. Select Start, press and hold (or right-click) Computer > Properties. Select Change settings next to the computer name. On the Computer Name tab, select Change.

Start smartOS VM from iso that is in /zones/UUID/root/ vmadm start UUID order=cdn,once=d cdrom=/FILE.iso,ide Set static vnc port Do vmadm list to get UUID vmadm update UUID_HERE vnc_port=PORT_#_HERE I love RealVNC. It works well and they have stand-alone executable here’s the LINK

How to use SSL tunneling on WSL and access on local machine. This is super useful when needing to VNC into a smartOS KVM VM. ssh -L 0.0.0.0:PORT:REMOTE_IP:PORT [email protected]

These aren’t really tricks, but super useful if you want to change things without interrupting the end user. Find service name since the display name may be different sc query | find “DISPLAY_NAME” sc config "SERVICE_NAME" start=disabled sc stop "SERVICE_NAME"

I just learned that you can remote control terminal sessions. They call it shadowing. I’ve only done it on Windows Server 2012 r2, but was super easy. You just need to open server manager, go to remote desktop services, then collections, then QuickSessionsCollections. Then you’ll see the connections in the upper right hand corner. Once you find the one you want you right click on the session and hit Shadow. By default this will ask the user to allow, if you want to override that and allows allow you can do the following group policy change.

I learned about XCP-NG not to log ago and love it. It’s great and easy to use. My only issue is I guess on newer versions of Windows 10/Server 2019 they were having freezing issues. I had the issue with Windows 10. I just went with Windows 7 VMs for what I needed until they get the problem worked out. XCP-NG works great with Linux. Here are some useful commands I’ve found.

I NO LONGER RECOMEND USING THIS WAY. I RECOMEND USING WP-CLI SEARCH-REPALCE. HOW TO USE CAN BE FOUND HERE. Below is the search and replace for WP which I find really helpful when changing to a new domain. I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR USING THIS. MAKE SURE TO BACK UP YOUR DATABASE BEFORE YOU USE THIS SOFTWARE. ALSO THIS MAY NOT BE THE NEWEST VERSION SO IF YOU WANT THE NEWEST VERSION FOR SURE GO TO THE SITE.

This is probably useful to figure out how to reverse proxy Apache behind NGINX, but I was finally able to get NextCloud working on NGINX with no problem I like to use NGINX as my web server because that’s what I’ve always worked with. I’ve tried a couple times to get NGINX to work with NextCloud, but it would also end up not letting me log in. I did some Googleing and I guess it has something to do with how the cache is handled in NGINX.

This will report the average of all folders in the directory in megabytes du -sh --block-size=1M ./*/ | gawk '{sum += $1; n++;} END {print sum/n;}'

This data has been copied from HERE Please follow the steps below: Turn off the system completely, and turn it back on, you should be able to get back into the OS. 2)Download the following driver and extract it: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22655/Intel-Chipset-Device-Software-for-HECI or my link here, this may not be the newest intel_chipset_SPS_MEI_NULL_v1.2.3.2003 Open up Device Manager View » Show hidden devices In the main window, expand System devices and look the device written exactly as “Intel(R) Management Engine Interface”

Copied from Here If you don’t want to do any configuration inside the guest, then the only option is a DHCP server that hands out static IP addresses. If you use bridge mode, that will probably be some external DHCP server. Consult its manual to find out how to serve static leases. But at least in forward modes nat or route, you could use libvirt’s built-in dnsmasqd (More recent versions of libvirtd support the dnsmasq’s “dhcp-hostsfile” option).

Not my file, but Comptia made a really nice roadmap layout. Thought it would be nice to post. Here’s the direct LINK [pdf id=556]

mkdir /var/www/html/fog/cz Download iSO and extract to /var/www/html/fog/cz Go to Fog Configuration > iPXE New Menu Entry Give it a menu item name Add the below to “Parameters” :Clonezilla echo Starting CloneZilla with default options kernel http://IP/fog/cz/live/vmlinuz initrd http://IP/fog/cz/live/initrd.img imgargs vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run=“ocs-live-general” ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=http://IP/fog/cz/live/filesystem.squashfs boot || goto MENU Now it should work.

I noticed that when trying to mount NFS upon boot it wasn’t working. After it was booted up I could run “mount -a” and everything would come up. After some googling I learned you can add “_netdev” to the mount options in /etc/fstab and it works great. I’ve tested this on Debian and CentOS

mysql_secure_installation doesn’t seem to work on the newest Debain After some googling I think I found what works for me. Delete anon user DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User=’'; delete non local root user DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User=‘root’ AND Host NOT IN (’localhost’, ‘127.0.0.1’, ‘::1’); drop test database DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS test; drop all other root users drop user ‘root’@’localhost’; drop user ‘root’@‘127.0.0.1’; drop user ‘root’@’::1’; create a new root user with password

I found this HERE. I don’t take credit I just wanted to host the zip just in case their site went down for some reason. Here is my LINK. I tried to get it to work, but it wouldn’t recognize that the button was plugged in :-( If you wanted to use it on Linux it looks like there is a node package for it at LINK.

This isn’t my picture I found it on reddit.

Disable ADMIN user Before doing this bit you may wish to check that the new user you added works for everything you need it to. Those things might include: ssh to [email protected] Log in on web interface at https://192.168.1.22/ Various ipmitool commands like querying power status:$ ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.22 -U somename -a power status Password: Chassis power is on If all of that is okay then you can disable ADMIN:

I found these scripts years ago and decided to use them. I might as well share them First the ipset and iptables need to be installed apt install iptables ipset Now we need to create the ipset lists ipset create drop hash:net ipset create allowHTTPS hash:net ipset create allowSSH hash:net ipset create directHTTPS hash:net ipset create google hash:net script to update files and countries. If you go to the ipdeny site you can find which countries you can add.

net user <username> "" net user <username> /passwordreq:no