MAS MacOS app management

MacOS: Streamline Your App Management with MAS

Managing apps on your Mac can sometimes feel like a chore, especially when you have to manually update, install, or remove them. Enter MAS (Mac App Store command line interface), a powerful tool that simplifies these tasks and more. In this blog post I explore how MAS can make your life easier and why you

Lab setup: Secure your SSH communication with certificates

When you Ssh the first time to a host the screen shows something like: Be honest: Do you just accept the shown Fingerprint of the remote host or do you really doublecheck the presented fingerprint before you accept ? My guess: Most of the time the presented fingerprint gets accepted without any additional check. This

Secure your SSH communication with certificates

How about securing your SSH-Server to only support login-attempts including a valid signed certificate from a trusted CA ? This sounds pretty cool, but there are a couple of pitfalls which should be outlined first: OpenSSH’s decision to use its own proprietary SSH certificates instead of X.509 certificates, as outlined in RFC 6187 (no draft,

Duplicati RPi setup on 64-bit Ubuntu OS Jammy (22.04)

Setting up Duplicati on Ubuntu Jammy (22.04) for Raspberry Pi (RPI) is a great way to ensure your data is securely backed up. Duplicati is a free, open-source backup solution that allows you to store encrypted, incremental, and compressed backups on various cloud storage services and remote file servers. It supports a wide range of storage