December 9, 2020
How to add a GUI on CentOS 7 and connect to it via xRDP – step by step instructions In this tutorial we’ll cover the […]
November 17, 2020
What is Az CLI? The Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) is a set of commands used to manage Azure resources from the command line. It is a […]
January 22, 2020
Azure Cloud silently released some new features to help everyday Azure Cloud Administrators with troubleshooting the "no boot/no ssh" scenario.The efforts into this direction started about 2 years ago with the public release of the "Serial Console" feature, which finally allowed customers to reach out to their VMs from the Azure Portal, without the need of an SSH connection.
April 25, 2019
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a widely used tool by all Azure cloud administrators. However, with the increasing number of Linux VMs in the Azure Cloud, having a working version of Azure Storage Explorer on a Linux machine became a necessity, and Microsoft did took the 1st steps into providing one.
July 27, 2018
Since I spend almost every day working with the Azure Cloud, these days I’ve been playing around with the Azure File Share and Linux. One of […]
March 21, 2018
How to kill an active SSH session after a defined time interval ? Every Linux admin has used the idle timeout option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config given […]
December 22, 2017
Today I decided to play around with the Google two factor authentication method on one of my Linux VMs hosted in Azure.
What this means?
Well, my idea was to have a VM that I ususaly login with my SSH key automatically, to prompt me for a code that changes every 30 seconds.
Google Authenticator offers just that.
July 31, 2017
If you have multiple PID files for the same process ( e.g. 1_process_name.pid, 2_process_name.pid, ecc. ) you may have a situation like the one described above.
So, how do you delete the PID files for the processes that are no longer running, without interfering with the running processes?
February 13, 2017
Let’s connect our Cisco switch with our Debian 8 tacacs+ server The first step is to connect to the ASA device and gain privilege exec access. […]
