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Is there any documentation on the Azure App Service configuration flag CONTAINER_SKIP_CONFIGURATION?
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I noticed this flag being checked in the startup logs of a Windows container. I've tried setting it to 1 since I'm having startup issues, but other than the logs indicating that it skipped configuration, there's no clue what that entails. Any more info?

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letsencrypt not working for base domain
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I'm using centos 8, and have installed let's Encrypt certificate that's not working for base (root) domain but working for sub domain. I've checked certificates available for both root and sub domains Found the following certs:

    Certificate Name: teachersbook.pk
    Serial Number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    Key Type: XXXXXXXX
    Domains: teachersbook.pk www.teachersbook.pk
    Expiry Date: 2021-12-13 0 ...
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How do I block UPnP except for a select group of IP addresses?
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I have researched on here and Googled a lot of stuff but I cannot get an answer to blocking UPnP. One of our security scan declares UPnP is a vulnerability and to restrict access. I have been trying to come up with a set of firewall rules that will prevent all but a hand full of IP addresses being able to access port 5000.

I followed this [article][1] but I don't think it is complete. The zone I  ...

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How to ensure SAS-3 wide port configuration is enabled?
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I have:

  • A commodity Linux server, in this I have installed:
  • 1x HBA storage adapter Broadcom (LSI) 9500-8e having 2x mini-SAS-HD connector, connected to:
  • 1x Storage enclosure with dual input mini-SAS-HD connector, SAS-3 capable, using:
  • 2x mini-SAS-HD cables running between the controller and the enclosure.
  • A bunch of SAS 3.0 hard disks in the enclosure.

The enclosure and disks work just fine with a sin ...

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Restore permissions to all files in folder using RPM
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Using chmod, I accidentally changed everything in a bin folder and now sudo/su doesn't work.

I know rpm -q --whatprovides can provide which RPM provides a specific file. and rpm --setperms can restore everything provided by a RPM.

Is there a way to restore the permissions of all the files in a folder using rpm?

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onee avatar
VMware Vcenter with FreeIPA - permissions for group
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I have a problem with permissions for groups in vmware. My configuration in Vmware:

Identity source type: OpenLDAP
Name: FreeIpa
Base distinguished name for users: cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=freeipa,dc=eu1,dc=d
Base distinguished name for group: cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=freeipa,dc=eu1,dc=d
Domain name: freeipa.example.com
domain alias: freeipa.eu1.d
Username: uid=system-vmware-vcenter,cn=sysaccounts,c ...
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Aviad P. avatar
systemd service starts ok, but hangs after restart
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I am having a weird problem, I have set up a custom systemd service running a dotnet project. When the system first starts up, the service also starts just fine, however when I restart it, it hangs.

System is Ubuntu 20.04 on Azure.

Here's the service description:

[Unit]
Description=Api

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/aviad/Backend
ExecStart=/snap/bin/dotnet run -c AzureDev --launch-profile AzureDev
Res ...
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Accessing BigQuery data from different project in same organization with a Service Account
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I'm having some serious trouble getting the official BigQuery client (in Python 3) to a different project in the same organization authorized from a Cloud Run service.

The Cloud Run service is in Project Main, and I'm trying to access a table in Project Other -- both of these projects are in the same organization.

The service account was a user-created service account created in Project Main (not th ...

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WUA IUpdateSearcher::Search method seems to freeze on only 1 of my servers
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SYSTEM Details: Edition = Windows Server 2019 Standard, Version = 1809, OS Build = 17763.2114

My code:
  - $UpdateSession = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Session
  - $UpdateServiceManager  = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.ServiceManager
  - $UpdateService = $UpdateServiceManager.AddScanPackageService("Offline Sync Service", $CabPath, 1)
  - $UpdateSearcher = $UpdateSession.CreateUp ...
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SSH from A through B, C to D using private key on B to access C and D
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I'm looking for a way to access to a server (D) through 2 proxy (B and C) using SSH keys stored on the first proxy (B). My computer (A) isn't allowed to save the key.

I understand the way to access to C using the key on B with an ssh config file (cf this post):

Host C
    ProxyCommand ssh -T -q -o 'ForwardAgent yes' B 'ssh-add -t 1 ~/.ssh/mykey && nc %h %p'

But from this point I can't use  ...

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Magnus avatar
Do nodes in a single-switch ethernet network governed by dnsmasq communicate directly, or via the router?
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Variations on this question exist, but I cannot be certain my exact situation has been asked.

I am setting up a simple ethernet network that looks like this:

enter image description here

On Node 0 ("rpi1") I am running dnsmasq as both a DNS and DHCP server. Here is a section of its /etc/dnsmasq.conf (minus the MAC Address details):

# Assign static IPs to cluster members
# Format = MAC:hostname:IP
dhcp-host=ZZ:YY:XX:WW:VV:UU,rpi ...
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Display full FROM email address in Outlook
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I'm trying to do phishing mitigation in the Outlook desktop app, and I've seen a number of cases where the display name is so long that the email address gets truncated, e.g.

From: Microsoft email account activity notifications admin@microsoft.completely.bogus.example.com

might get truncated in the view pane to

From: Microsoft email account activity notifications <admin@microsoft.com

which looks at ...

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How to redirect forward from one subdomain to another subdomain with DNS?
cn flag

I have several subdomains under an existing main domain, e.g.:

eg.domain1.com
ie.domain1.com

The company is rebranding, and has setup a new main domain, under which all of these subdomains now need to exist under the same DNS IP Addresses, e.g.:

eg.domain2.com
ie.domain2.com

I need to have the old subdomains redirected/forwarded to the new subdomains, e.g:

sub.domain1.com -> sub.domain2.com
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Configuring User Rights Assignment policies via GPO
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I'm configuring a GPO to add a local group to a user right policy, however, when configuring through GPO, all existing members of the right are removed on GPO application. You can obviously add all the users to the GPO to make sure these are retained but when the user is only local to the remote server e.g. NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT, this can't be added to the GPO from the DC which simply doesn't recogn ...

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Connect to server running Forticlient VPN
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I have an AWS EC2 instance (instance 1) with Forticlient to connect a client network. My plan was to connect to AWS via ssh and then to the VPN.

I installed everything correctly and when I connect to the VPN with Forticlient I lose the connection from my local machine to AWS.

I have another EC2 instance (instance 2) in the same VPC as the first EC2 instance and I'm able to connect to instance 1 via  ...

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