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Synchronizing Time Using NTP

Linux System Admin

Check out NTP-Pool for a list of pools available to different regions. Configuration Network Ti...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

Server Hostname

Linux System Admin

Renaming An Ubuntu Linux Host Renaming a host on Ubuntu is simple, just need to make some very s...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

Enabling Google 2FA

Linux SSH Configuration

Overview Two factor authentication is easy to configure and helps further secure your server. It...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

User Administration

Linux SSH Configuration

Managing passwords Change current user password, prompt for current passwd - passwd If you can ...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

Bash Profiles

Linux Bash

The following block contains a list of files related to bash, and their location / use. /bin/bash...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

Configure Postfix

Linux System Admin

Postfix is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) that can act as an SMTP server or client to send or rece...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

Configuring Multi-boot Filesystems

Linux System Admin

When installing a fresh Linux Distribution, you might want to dual-boot, or even multi-boot, into...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

Configure FTP

Linux System Admin

You can use scp instead, taking advantage of the added security and already-configured users on y...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

Fail2Ban

Security Monitoring

Links & Installation Fail2ban Documentation Linode Fail2ban Guide sudo yum install fail2ban sud...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

Creating Playbooks

Ansible

Ad-Hoc Commands First, we should be sure that ansible is configured correctly, to run commands on...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

Solidity

Blockchain

This page will cover setting up a local environment for working with Solidity. This is not requir...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

New Input System

Game Development Unity

Setup Using the default configuration for a keyboard&mouse / Gamepad Input Actions asset in unit...

Updated 3 years ago by Shaun Reed

Notes

Vim

Text Editing Vim has many tools for editing large text files. Some examples below. Idiomatic vi...

Updated 4 years ago by Shaun Reed

Managing Remote Hosts

Ansible

Basic Requirements On this page, I'll describe how to configure Ansible to manage a remote host....

Updated 4 years ago by Shaun Reed

Creating Roles

Ansible

Ansible Galaxy Ansible has a built in tool ansible-galaxy which allows us to quickly create a se...

Updated 4 years ago by Shaun Reed

Welcome to Knoats!

BookStack Knoats

This is a personal project in server-administration, documentation, and development. None of the ...

Updated 4 years ago by Shaun Reed

Bookstack Using Docker Compose

BookStack Installation

Creating a Bookstack on localhost A Bookstack can be easily ran with docker using the default .e...

Updated 4 years ago by Shaun Reed

Configuring Vim

Vim

Customizing ~/.vimrc Vim is a text editor that is difficult to get comfortable with, but once yo...

Updated 4 years ago by Shaun Reed

Backup Bookstack Using Docker

BookStack Development

Don't drive as root, create a BookStack administrator account by following the adduser instructio...

Updated 4 years ago by Shaun Reed

Updating BookStack Using Docker

BookStack Development

You can use volumes within docker-compose to store your configurations for your services, includi...

Updated 4 years ago by Shaun Reed