26 Thursday Apr 2018
Posted in Cisco, Networking, Shell Scripting, TCL, Uncategorized
So I have had need to quickly build a provisioning server for a lab to auto provision devices as they come online. This is the basic steps to accommodate this. Note there are far more complex and secure methods to utilizing something similar in production. Feel free to use this as a learning tool, but understand in a production environment, this is not recommended as critical pieces of information would be sent in clear text.
31 Tuesday Mar 2015
Posted in CodeProject, Security, Shell Scripting
So I get extremely frustrated having to change my password every 60 days because the security department has this belief that somehow that is going to prevent the nightmare at Sony from coming down upon our company. Without getting too deep into the politics around security I am a firm believer that it is far better for people to have a password that is highly complex and never changes or better yet high entropy and very simple to remember as opposed to forced rotations of passwords. My reasoning is simple. If I were a hacker and I got your password, I wouldn’t wait 60 days to use it. I would own you in the immediate… as in right now. Continue reading
