I ran into several scripts that worked perfectly on CentOS 6 and 7, but failed when moved to CentOS 8. Below are a few real examples along with the fixes. curl A script I was using (originally inspired by 802.1x authentication on macOS and a GitHub example) contained: # CentOS 7 curl –negotiate -u : … On CentOS 8, this…
Read More »While performing yum updates on CentOS 7 minimal install virtual servers, I came across a problem server. The server needed a reboot after performing a hardware change. It did not come back up. It had a Kernel Panic error. I did so many things to that server, I didn’t know what the cause for the panic was, but fortunately I…
Read More »vsftpd (“Very Secure FTP Daemon”) is an FTP server for Linux and supports PAM (“pluggable authentication modules”). A virtual user cannot login to the Linux system and is considered more secure than using a “real” user whom can login to a Linux system. This guide offers a script that demonstrates one way to setup a vsftpd server using PAM with…
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A CentOS7 Linux server was used to create Samba shares so that Windows clients of a home network may back up their stuff, resulting in one share with read write access. The ultimate goal was to create a Samba share that would act as if it were one of those off-the-shelf “solutions” like a Buffalo Linkstation, where no user password…
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