Matthew Drummond

Setting up Kiosk mode Windows 10 1903 and newer

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 07:30:00 -0500

Preamble

What we will be wanting to do is to make a computer/laptop on access certain websites or certain applications.
This can be used for web applications through Edge, or any other UWP app, and is a simple set of instructions.

Instructions

This is from the point from a fresh image of windows 10 1903 onto a machine, and after we rename the computer, enable RDP, disable windows updates, and activate windows, and create/modify an administrator account then we can start doing the setup of the Kiosk using the new Kiosk mode.

Kiosk mode is supposed to set some settings for us manually, but as of July 2019 there are some know bugs, to mitigate this we need to set some settings.

Adventures in FOSS: FOG Deployment

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600

This is a tutorial to instruct a user on the deployment of a FOG imaging server on a preexisting Linux server.

Edit (2018-11-13): updated documentation to reflect Ubuntu 18.04.1 & FOG version 1.5.4.

Quick and Basic sshd_config Options

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:34:48 -0600

This is just a list of basic additions/modifications to the sshd_config file for general security, and ease of administration.

Protocol 2
ClientAliveInterval 360
ClientAliveCountMax 0
MaxAuthTries 5
PermitEmptyPasswords no
PermitRootLogin no
PubkeyAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication no
X11Forwarding no
Port 1984
AllowUsers user1 user2
AllowGroups remoteadmin
banner /etc/ssh_motd
PrintLastLog yes
IgnoreRhosts yes
Loglevel VERBOSE

And of course, always use key based authorization, properly chmod your files, use a banner/motd that your legal department would be proud of, and research additional software protection such as Fail2ban.

Simple Nagios Install Script

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 21:34:48 -0600

This is just a stupid simple installation script originally Nagios 4.3.4, on Ubuntu 16.04, and is compatible with 18.04 LTS.

The script is written in bash, and handles dependency installation, user and group creation, Nagios core installation, as well as the basic plugins.

Presentation: Windows Remote Desktop Services - VDI

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500

The following is a presentation from year 2 of college on the topic of the remote desktop service: VDI.

References to my partner, and any copyrighted materials have been redacted for redistribution.

Presentation: Clustering

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 21:34:48 -0600

The following is a presentation from year 2 of college on the topic of Server Clustering.

References to my partner, and any copyrighted materials have been redacted for redistribution.

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Virtualization in a Nutshell

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500

What is virtualization?

According to Arwen Hutt in the paper “Employing Virtualization in Library Computing: Use Cases and Lessons Learned” (2009) Virtualization is defined as:

“…to partition the physical resources (processor, hard drive, network card, etc.) of one computer to run one or more instances of concurrent, but not necessarily identical, operating systems…”