Everyone should be changing root passwords from time to time on their infrastructure. It's something we all put off as long as possible for various reasons whether they be the hatred of learning a new password or just sheer laziness. Needless to say, it is a necessity of being an admin of ANY system, hope … Continue reading Automate password changes with Ansible

Since my last post, there have been FIVE new vulnerabilities released for bash. The floodgates have opened it seems... Obviously you want to push the bash updates to all your servers sooner rather than later and you have no reason not to as it's a non-disruptive update. A user in the sysadmin channel on FreeNode … Continue reading Shellshock continued!