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Clearing Password History

Occasionally one has to violate best practices to clear password history.

AIX, and Linux:

chuser histsize=0 username

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Key and CSR Generation

This is how to generate a certificate request the right way, in 2017. When this changes (and it will), this document will be amended.

Generate the Key

We first generate a 4096 bits key for the domain.

openssl genrsa -out example.com.key 4096

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_complete_ssh_hosts ()
{
        COMPREPLY=()
        cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
        comp_ssh_hosts=`cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | \
                        cut -f 1 -d ' ' | \
                        sed -e s/,.*//g | \
                        grep -v ^# | \
                        uniq | \
                        grep -v "\[" ;

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Signing commits using GPG (Ubuntu/Mac)

• Do you have an Github account? If not create one.
• Install required tool.
• Latest Git Client.
• gpg tools.

# Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install gpa seahorse

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

usage() {
cat <<HERE
usage: git make-remote <project-name>
   or: git make-remote <path/to/project-name>
HERE
}

GIT_SERVER="git.zikes.me"

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a:hover {
    /* border glow effect on hover */
    box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px #000;
    filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Glow(Color=black,Strength=20);
}

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To generate it (from current date/time):

`date +%s`

Under macOS/BSD, to generate it based a given date:

`date -j -f "%d-%M-%Y" 20-12-2016 +%s`

And on Linux:

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man() {
	env \
		LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[1;36m' \
		LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m' \
		LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\e[0m' \
		LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\e[1;40;92m' \
		LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m' \
		LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[1;32m' \
			man "$@"
}

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#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

    `basename "$0"` my-script.sh