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AWS RDS PostgreSQL Passwords
Working on a customer's AWS database instance, I found they didn't have all the passwords. I could get onto administer to AWS RDS database and instance, bu

Performance Monitoring Update
Previously, we used InfluxDB v1 - now we're rolling out InfluxDB v2.1. Building the Container Set We're going to use glances, influxdb and grafana. version

Performance Monitoring
Updated:With glances on Linux we are able to get a good overview of performance, including the dockers that are running. Rather than simply watch this on screen we

OpenLDAP Hashes
Whilst doing some experimentation with OpenLDAP I found that if I hashed my passwords using SSHA-512 in Apache Directory Studio I would not be able to auth

VSCode Remote SSH Fails to Connect
Updated:This cost me a few hours today. I thought my ssh config was messed up as nothing i did would allow me to get onto my remote workstation, but it worked fine

Exim4 AUTH LOGIN with LDAP
Updated:This was a cause for smashing my head against the wall today. I configured Exim4 with LDAP auth and tested it with Thunderbird and a couple of Mac clients

Default Editor
Using crontab or the like, I always find myself in nano , which is my least favourite editor. To make a choice of what editor to use, there are a couple of

Spam Assassin and Bayesian Learning
Updated:Spam Assassin is the good old go to for filtering emails, but I wanted to upgrade our existing system and add into it the ability for users to send their r

Spam Assassin Resending With Headers
Updated:Following on from Spam Assassin and Bayesian Learning To give our users the ability to forward mail to the spam learning feature, we need to ensure the for

Exim4 - LDAP Auth
Updated:Having setup postfix and LDAP auth , setting up an Exim server should be within our capabilities. The trouble is I find the exim config a bit scruffy and c