My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett Having MFA on a server is a good thing. But it can be a real PITA when you are required to pull out your phone for every single connection to the server, especially if you are performing some kind of automated task. Fortunately, ssh provides a mechanism to allow you to use the proper authentication … Read more
It seems like everywhere you log in these days wants you to use some kind of 2 factor (multi-factor) authentication. The most common one you will have likely seen is the OATH time based code generation where you use an authenticator app to generate codes that cycle every 30 seconds. Well, it turns out you … Read more
Sometimes you might need your key for Windows, like when you want to to a bare metal rebuild. There isn’t (that I could find) a way to get it from the GUI, but there is a command you can run from the command prompt (don’t forget to run the command prompt as Administrator) that will … Read more
If you are a Mac user, and decide to use the OS keychain to unlock your ssh keys, you might want to go back to existing keys you have, and add a password to them. This can be accomplished easily enough with the same ssh-keygen command you use to generate new keys. The command has … Read more
One really nice feature of MacOS is the integration of ssh keys with the OS keychain. This allows you to put a password on your ssh private key(s) that will unlock when you log in. Using this feature, combined with the ssh agent, and you can have a password protected ssh key, and not have … Read more
Sometimes you need a way to get in to a system that is not accessible publicly, and for whatever reason, you can’t use a full VPN. This is a good time for the connectivity Swiss-Army-Knife, and your best friend, ssh and, if available, its companion autossh. And for you Windows people, I mean ssh, not … Read more
Sometimes I use external programs to update my Music files; specifically, I like using MusicBrainz Picard to add extra information. Once you change the info externally, you need to tell Music to re-read the file and update. You can always “Get Info” on each file individually, if you only have a few files to refresh. … Read more
Recently, I’ve been going through my Music collection and doing cleanup. I’ve been using iTunes and now the hot mess of Apple Music since the very beginning. Throughout the years, various tracks have randomly disappeared, or gotten corrupted in some way. I’m not entirely sure why, though I think it might have something to do … Read more
I am not advocating piracy here. This is just a method to remove the purchased flag from Apple Music/iTunes downloaded files, and make them show up as normal AAC files if you have some reason to do so. The shotgun approach is to just remove all the meta-data from the stream. This is simple enough … Read more
You have probably created nice icons for your volumes or folders, only have them get removed at some point that you cannot remember. To keep from losing it, you can easily keep a backup of it. You can keep it in icns format, or make a PNG out of it. From a command line (Terminal … Read more