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Intro After creating my domain trust between AD and FreeIPA, I was left wanting to access restricted resources in Linux using my AD accounts. To circumvent this, I mapped a group from AD to FreeIPA and gave it the appropriate permissions. Create the group in AD The first step would be to create a …

Intro After creating a trust in FreeIPA, I kept having to write the full domain alongside my username whenever I tried to access the system. These are the steps I took to log in only with my username. Editing SSSD.conf Navigate to /etc/sssd/ and open sssd.conf in an elevated text editor. It should …

Intro I’ve been playing around with FreeIPA in my homelab for a while and have always wanted to enable seamless authentication between all my hosts regardless of their operating system. I stumbled upon the concept of cross-domain trusts between FreeIPA and Active Directory which allows us to …

Intro One of the nodes in my lab runs pfSense and if the vm is down, my network is down. This prevents my nodes from reaching quorum, and thus preventing pfSense from starting. To solve this, I needed a way for the vm to start without quorum. This was achieved by creating a oneshot service that runs …

Intro This is just a post to describe my homelab setup and make it linkable where needed (like in my resume). This is most definitely subject to change at any time as I continue to play with new technologies and keep adding things! Hosts My homelab consists of a one node proxmox host and a …

Intro After tirelessly looking for a solution in order to dynamically create a whitelist for Suricata based on DNS, I decided to create my own. Download the necessary files Create a whitelist file with all the domains you wish whitelisted. A useful starting point is anudeepND’s collection of …