A brief guide to PolicyKit

Like the title suggests, this will be relatively brief – mostly because Policykit isn’t as difficult to understand as I originally led myself to believe.

It all sprang from starting to write about how to get X11rdp/xrdp up and running on your Linux systems. Sure, getting the desktop up remotely in a fast efficient way

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ssh – Secure your systems with ssh on Linux and puTTY on Windows – Part 1

This will be a multi-part series on SSH

This is Part 1

Say you have a workstation or server, safely sitting behind a firewall, but you need access, for example, to the shiny RDP service you installed not so long ago, and/or other services on that system.

You could easily forward the RDP

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How to install and multi-boot between Windows, and Debian Testing with full disk encryption

 

 

Lets say you have a laptop or a netbook which you take with you everywhere, and on which you keep sensitive information. (Lets even say you have a home computer with sensitive information.)

You don’t have to be a secret agent or a crook to have sensitive information. Everyone has sensitive information!

Sensitive

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VirtualBox and iSCSI / NAS How-To – Linux and Windows

I have a NAS. It’s a nice NAS. It’s a QNAP TurboNAS TS-419P, and it’s just what I need for my SOHO setup.

Amongst many other things it can do, it can allow me to use its RAID array as iSCSI targets.

VirtualBox is also great. It can use iSCSI targets as storage devices, and

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VirtualBox on Windows 7 Host with Raw Disk Access – Solution to Randomly Changing Disc Assignment Numbers

UPDATE, 2013-07-01: I’ve had people coming back saying they can’t see some drives using this method. There is an explanation for this. The tl;dr is that Microsoft placed a hard limit of 4 drives/partitions, because Windows NT (!!) could theoretically only boot from a maximum of 4 partitions it can get reports back from

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Install xrdp and X11rdp – the comprehensive HOWTO for Ubuntu and Debian based systems

Learn how to get the X11rdp binary up and running, for use with the xrdp package.

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Hacking around the Japanese Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH

(2010-12-09 Now unstuck this page because I plan to overwrite with Openwrt – will publish a writeup about this).

UPDATE 2010-09-17 : look in comments for serial port pinouts… UPDATE 2010-10-02 : A reader of this site has discovered what to set in the environment variables which tells the Japanese firmware to accept ANY alternate

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