TestRail: reset admin password
0 (0)

13 May 2019

We have a TestRail installation but suddenly lose its Admin user password. The Reset Password says that “Email sending failed” although email was configured and users are able to get emails from the server. Also, the log /var/www/testrail.example.com/logs/log-2019-05-13.php didn’t says anything so will reset password in another way – by update this TestRail MySQL database… Read More »

Loading

Bitwarden: an organization’s password manager self-hosted version installation on an AWS EC2
0 (0)

1 May 2019

We consider Bitwarden as a passwords keeper for our project with the main goal to have an ability to have separated access to secrets by user roles and/or ACLs. I.e. Pass or KeePass are good for self-usage by one person but they have no main things – a normal web-interface and role-based access to data.… Read More »

Loading

Linux: GPG-keys, Pass – passwords manager, and passwords import from the KeePass database
0 (0)

25 April 2019

pass – a password manager for Linux/UNIX. Stores data in tree-based directories/files structure and encrypts files with a GPG-key. In Arch Linux present by default, in Debian can be installed using apt from default repositories: [simterm] $ sudo apt install pass [/simterm] For macOS can be installed with Homebrew: [simterm] $ brew install pass [/simterm]… Read More »

Loading

Golang: pointers – detailed overview
0 (0)

20 April 2019

What is the pointer? Shortly, the pointer is a variable which stores an address of another variable, where some data is stored. A pointer example Let’s take the simplest example where a pointer is used: package main import “fmt” func main() { a := 1 b := &a fmt.Println(“A: “, a) fmt.Println(“B: “, b) fmt.Println(“B:… Read More »

Loading

Authy: step by step Multi-Factor Authentication configuration for Github and AWS
0 (0)

17 April 2019

I’m sure that using MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) today is oblivious. For 2FA (2-Factor Authentication) the most used method is TOTP – Time-based One-time Password, when alongside with the common login:password also needs to enter a code generated by a device or software. The most known implementation is Google Authenticator but also there is a lot… Read More »

Loading

Jenkins: a job to check a Github organization’s public repositories list
0 (0)

16 April 2019

Proceeding with a Github repositories checker. To recall: the idea is to have such a check in case if somebody from developers accidentally will share our project’s private repository as public, or will create a public repository instead of making it as a private one – we will get a Slack alarm about such a… Read More »

Loading

Redis: replication, part 4 – writing an Ansible role fore the Master-Slave replication with Redis Sentinel provisioning
0 (0)

15 April 2019

The next post from the Redis replication series. Previous parts: Redis: replication, part 1 – an overview. Replication vs Sharding. Sentinel vs Cluster. Redis topology. Redis: replication, part 2 – Master-Slave replication, and Redis Sentinel Redis: replication, part 3 – redis-py and work with Redis Sentinel from Python The task now is to write an… Read More »

Loading

Arch Linux: Albion Online – Unable to preload the following plugins: libSDL2-2.0.so.0
0 (0)

14 April 2019

Didn’t play in Albion Online for a while, but recalled about it and tried to play on my Arch Linux. It works fine from the Steam client, but I bought with a start package some time ago and can’t log in to Steam’s version with my old credentials. Okay – download game from the https://albiononline.com/ru/download,… Read More »

Loading

Go: checking public repositories list in Github. Go slices comparison. The first Golang experience.
0 (0)

13 April 2019

The task is to write a tool which will be started from a Jenkin’s job by a cron and will check an organization’s public repositories list in the Github. A Docker-image build and a Jenkins job are described in the Jenkins: a job to check a Github organization’s public repositories list post. Then it has… Read More »

Loading

Redis: Sentinel – bind 0.0.0.0, the localhost issue and the announce-ip option
0 (0)

10 April 2019

Originally, in a Sentinel’s configs, I have used the bind 0.0.0.0 to make them accessible from external hosts. Because of this when I started rolling out this setup on a real environment faced with an issue when Sentinels could not determine a Master host and other Sentinel hosts. In this post – such an issue… Read More »

Loading