SmartCard-based authentication for SSH sessions
The issue The security of all IT systems can be compromised only through the interfaces between them and the world, so the security measures that protect the access to such systems are highly...
View ArticlePerl exercises shortest route between two towns
Introduction I will present some of the exercises I got from my perl programming mentor. These exercises helped me to get more in depth with perl, and learn the mechanism behind the language. You can...
View ArticleChecking the age of a file – Perl in monitoring
An unusual monitoring request Some time ago we – at the monitoring team got a bit strange request: Check the time when a file was written last time. If the modification time of it is older than “x”...
View ArticleQuery kvm xml information script
Introduction One of the problems I was expieriencing after creating a machine is to gather information for further post scripts. I had thaught of creating a mysql table with all the information of the...
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