I previously wrote a quick post on using a connection manager in Linux. Link here: Linux tabbed SSH connection manager I have used for the most part something called the Gnome Connection Manager. However it is poorly maintained and had a few small annoyances also. I revisited a utility called…
Network Manager VPN Connections
I have documented previously that the Linux network manager can be used to connect to several different VPN gateways. There are several network manager plugins available for the different VPN solutions. The pptp plugin is used frequently but for newer Cisco gateways you should use the network-manager-openconnect-gnome plugin. You should use…
Auto Login and Sudo Security Cheat
Sometimes you have a VM that you just don’t care about security. I do the following to cheat a little on login and sudo. Update shadow password file will enable tools like gksudo to work. gksudo is what is used for prompts you get when using System Administration etc… You…