kitsutron.rocks!

Puppety Goodness - Rootless Splunk SC4S

Deploying SC4S can be a massive headache when you're deploying in a rootless configuration. Today we take the pain out of deploying SC4S in a rootless configuration including extra goodness for SELinux and Firewalld.

Intrusive Thoughts - AWK for 30 minutes

Accidentally going down a rabbit hole because thanks brain. Today we explore how AWK handles time and how you can apply that to your AWK scripts.

Essential links for the Puppet practitioner

Essential links for deploying, managing, and tuning a Puppet environment. These links represent my daily go-to resources for configuration management with open source Puppet and Puppet Enterprise.

Linting the Puppet Control Repository with PDK

In this article we look at what's required to use the powerful linting features of the Puppet Development Kit (PDK) to ensure your control repository meets Puppet standards for formatting, style, and documentation along with linting your code to catch any nasty issues before you deploy to production. To find out how to use this awesome tool, read on...

Pentesting Tool List of Doom

A nice (slowly growing) no-nonsense list of tools and info for pentesting.

Enumeration with Python and Netcat

In this article we embrace our inner YARR!! and stream our sweet, gooey enumerationy goodness from a target machine straight back home without ever touching the filesystem. If you want to learn how to stream files back to your box with Netcat, read on...

How to harden Linux with Lynis and Puppet

In this article we learn how to apply hardening guidance from Cisofy's Lynis using Puppet. Read on...

How to apply roles in Puppet with Hiera

In this article we apply a handy feature of the Puppet language to offload all our node classification into Hiera. Read on...

How to use puppet:/// URLs in Puppet profiles

In this article we set up Puppet's native fileserver so that we can serve arbitrary files as part of the roles and profiles method. Read on...

How to Install Docker on Kali 2020.4

In this article we work through installing Docker on Kali 2020.4, avoiding a dependency pitfall that tries to uninstall kali-linux-default and kali-linux-headless when unintentionally removing libhttp-dav-perl.

Crunching CSVs with AWK for Fun and Profit

In this article we explore some of the neat things you can do to tabulated data in your terminal using AWK. Read on for details...

Install a Less Sad Terminal in Windows Subsystem for Linux

In this article we go over the process of installing an X Window Server in Windows so we can run a proper terminal emulator instead of the less than stellar one which comes bundled for use with WSL. Read on...