Stephan Wibier

Nutanix CommunityEdition (CE) 2.0 – Terminal to small…uh

Oct

7

2023

Tweet "Terminal screen is not large enough to run the installation script. Please resize the terminal and rerun the script." Ok, so I was installing the Nutanix Community Edition 2.0 (download here: https://next.nutanix.com/discussion-forum-14/download-community-edition-38417 ) on a HP Z620. These boxes do not have a videocard onboard, so you have to be present at the machine ...

Password hash in CentOS 7/8

Oct

2

2023

Tweet If you want to create a password hash that you want to put into your cloud-init configuration, it is possible to use a plain-text password. But you can use a hash so nobody can see the password. Some Linux distributions have the mkpasswd utility, but on CentOS this is not available. You can use a python ...

Linux – Cloud-init, note-to-self

May

7

2023

Tweet Just a reminder for myself. Can use in Cloud-init to set password for the root account. #cloud-config ssh_pwauth: true users: - name: root lock_passwd: false hashed_passwd: HASHED_PASSWORD ssh_authorized_keys: - ssh-rsa <key>

Linux – Password has been used already. Choose another

Dec

19

2022

Tweet Just a quick reminder, note-to-self Linux – Password has been used already. Choose another root@linux:~ # passwdChanging password for root.New Password:Reenter New Password:Password has been used already. Choose another.Password changed Linux is keeping the old password stored on /etc/security/opasswd. Delete the line containing the user that you’re trying to change the password.It is encrypted ...

Microsoft Security ATP Defender rename

Nov

11

2021

Tweet This is just a small post about the last rename of the Microsoft Security suites.I found this infogram on the Net and it is a good overview so I like to keep this for reference.I don’t know who the author is so I cannot give credits at this time. Microsoft Defender suite All the ...

Windows Update error 0x8007422

Aug

14

2019

Tweet This is just a quick one! I was in the process of updating a client and I got an error 0x80070422. Well ok, what is that? Actually very easy So what if I Enable and Start this service? Succes!! Happy Updating

Windows 10 (and Windows 7) License key – retrieve and report

Aug

12

2019

Tweet Recently I got a question about Embedded License keys for Windows client OS systems. These are systems with a Windows license key embedded in the BIOS. If you install Windows on a system with an embedded key, it will automatically install this key and activate it. There are several ways to get the Original ...

How-to: Fix Windows Update error 0xca00a000

Apr

14

2019

Tweet So recently I ran into a Windows Update error. I am in the WindowsInsider rings, so it is not uncommon to me that errors can occur! But this one was new, so what can I do? The error at hand was: Error 0xca00a000 Well the first thing I normally do in cases like this ...

Nutanix CommunityEdition (CE) 5.10

Mar

15

2019

Tweet Hi, so this is a new one. And it’s different, more technical. Also very nice to do and to play around with. I’m talking about the CommunityEdition (CE) of the Nutanix stack. Wait the what? Nutanix is a vendor that provides a Hyper-Converged datacenter solution. Enterprise Cloud. One OS. One Click. Any Cloud. Hm ...

HOW-TO Install Nutanix CommunityEdition (CE) 5.10 on VMware ESXi 6.7

Mar

15

2019

Tweet So in my last post I gave the address of where to get the nice and free bits to play with: Nutanix CommunityEdition (CE) 5.10 At the moment there is no ISO to download, so we have to go with the manual installation. This is not so hard but we have to take a ...