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STIG Compliance -SCAP, Group Policy Objects, and Evaluate-STIG… Ansible?
Welcome back to the Windows Server 2022 lab. I set this server up a while back in a post to learn about Active Directory. It’s been a little stagnant for a while since I moved all my homelab services away from my Windows and Ubuntu servers to LXCs (I have been really busy). The only…
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Cisco Packet Tracer – A basic LAN and the Cisco IOS CLI!
My oh my, have I been busy! I have been running almost 5 miles everyday, studying for the Security+ exam, testing network ideas at work, taking two college classes and somehow still finding a little time to play guitar and rest. Just look at these running stats! And if your a big running nerd like…
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CIS Level 2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 with DoD approved ACAS (Tenable/Nessus Essentials)
If you are not already familiar with Department of Defense standards for cyber security there is no better time to start reading about it. There is a great writeup here on SecureTrux on definition of an ACAS. ACAS is primarily a Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) suite of software vulnerability scanning tools for networks and applications. Following…
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Ethical Hacking class – Metasploit OS challenge.
A combination of the final steps of my college class, a new job and a Pwnagotchi experiment run wild – I have been quite absent. The class I am taking threw us into CTF groups with 10 different challenges to accomplish. I took on Challenge 9: Use the Category_09_Scanning_Exploitation-Challenge09-Group1-6VM for this question. The VM is…
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LXC NFS mount, Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts, and Jellyfin
Well, this has been a slow process getting here – I have tried to get the LXCs to share the NFS mount from the host NODE for a while. I did manage to bypass the problem using normal VMs in Proxmox (see post). You can see an early failure below from before I understood the…
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Windows Server 2022 Active Directory Lab Setup
Well, this has been coming for a while now. I just got really distracted with fun stuff – an Ethical Hacking course + studying for my Security+ certificate. I’ve put off acquiring certs for far to long! They expire, so I’ve had to be strategic. Back on task! My Windows Server 2025 was running a…
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NFS mount in Linux via fstab! Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr – how many “arrs” there?
What a journey it has been trying to get my NAS to mount in these LXCs in Proxmox. I’ve tried quite a bit of variations in the MOUNT command and ultimately landed on: I settled on this simple approach after trying to authenticate SMB and later NFS with a username/password approach for about a week.…
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CEPH & high availability implementation in a Proxmox cluster!
If you look back on one of my earlier posts on CEPH you can see it did not go so well. I didn’t really understand how it functioned in Proxmox. I knew it was a distributed storage and allowed for High Availability across the cluster but wasn’t certain on the install process. After a bit…
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Homepage.dev – what took so long? Terminal apps!!
I’ve seen this before, but I was so distracted learning about Kubernetes and focusing on my job, I just never got around to it. No longer! I present to you, homepage! I spun up a LXC in Proxmox on node1 and then of course got distracted(!!) by an insanely cool terminal app watching Christian Lempa…