Thursday, July 31, 2008

cacls and subinacl

I am trying to work with cacls and got this error:

The data area passed to a system call is too small.

I saw a post that said to use subinacl instead. The syntax is different.

Also working on getting the SetACL command to work, so far I have it dumping the info.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Sorting IP addresses with Excel

What I did was paste the list of ip into A1, select that column and performed text to column, specificying a "." delimiter.
Then sort by a,b,c,d highest to lowest.

then in F or another column I put the following formula.
=A1&"."&B1&"."&C1&"."&D1

I had seen some other post which had more complex answers and thought this method was better.

Openssl convert from iis format to pem

openssl pkcs12 - in -out filename.pem -nodes


then to get the crt and the key open save multiple copies and remove the private key from the .crt and then remove the certificate for the .key file.


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Username@Hostname /cygdrive/c/username/projects-reoccuring/check-ssl/ssl-certs
$ openssl pkcs12 -in iiscertexport.pfx -out filename.pem -nodes
Enter Import Password:
MAC verified OK

Username@Hostname /cygdrive/c/username/projects-reoccuring/check-ssl/ssl-certs
$ ls
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

AD - Group Policy Processing Speeds

Active Directory Group Policy
Hands down this is one of the biggest wins for Microsoft int he enterprise. Yes, I love Linux and am a big Linux fan, but this is something Microsoft got right. It wasn't great management in Windows 2000, but with the Group Policy Management Console that they released added a lot.

Here is an article from Mitch Tulloch that discusses Optimizing Group Policy Performance
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Optimizing-Group-Policy-Performance.html

Monday, July 07, 2008

my favorite editor

I opened the file with my favorite editor:
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

PGP resources

I am sometimes asked to explain PGP to co-workers, here are a list of refences that I felt were good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_cryptography

http://www.networkworld.com/news/64452_05-17-1999.html

better
http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Perl modules

I needed XML::LibXML and found that the University of Winnipeg has a repository.
Added the repro to my ppm tool and when then able to install the package and get running.

(Active State osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.00, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread version 5.8.8)

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/