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sVmotion VMware templates

July 12, 2011 Ed Goad 1 Comment

I am doing some VMware datastore shuffling and needed to move several templates to another datastore. For normal VMs, I

Coding Linux

Reset the root password to a random value

October 22, 2010 Ed Goad 0 Comments

I recently began setting up some Linux servers at work and become concerned about access to the root user account.

Coding VMware

Export and Import VMware affinity rules

September 23, 2010 Ed Goad 0 Comments

More searching for migration of my VCenter and I found http://ict-freak.nl/2009/09/06/powercli-export-and-import-drs-rules-v2/ which allows me to export and import the affinity

Coding VMware

Executing commands in a VM via powershell

September 16, 2010 Ed Goad 2 Comments

I got to thinking today that when you tell a VM to shutdown the OS, it is actually executing a

Coding VMware

Powershell to disconnect CD and Floppy drives in ESX

September 15, 2010 Ed Goad 2 Comments

This script will enumerate all VMs and disconnect all CDs and Floppy drives get-cddrive -VM * |where {$_.ISOPATH -ne $null}|set-cddrive

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Authenticating to APIs part 2

Continuing our discussion of authenticating to APIs to better keep our authentication tokens safe. Using the Python ConfigParser module to store passwords and tokens in a separate file, and then accessing them programmatically.

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Authenticating to APIs part 1

Introduction to using APIs that require authentication. Walking through the GitHub API documentation, creating a Personal Access Token for GitHub, and authenticating against their API.

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Continuing our use of the HaveIBeenPwned API and using this in a more dynamic Python script. This allows us to automatically look for a specific password and return its status to the user.

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Using the HaveIBeenPwned public API to test passwords for security. Validating if passwords have been found in online security breaches before.

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An introduction to working with JSON data returned from APIs. Specifically, creating a script to find out how many people are in space at this moment, and then parsing the JSON data to make it readable and accessible

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A brief introduction to working with online APIs and the tools to access them

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