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Locking and unlocking MacOS using a yubikey

Posted on vr 29 september 2017 in desktop • Tagged with apple, security

Some time ago I bought a couple of Yubikeys, but actually start using them ended up on the todo list.

But now I can easily unlock and lock my apple laptop with my yubi key. Unlocking is just done using the standard pam module and the configuration described at the …


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Protecting Keepass databases with yubikey on MacOS

Posted on vr 29 september 2017 in desktop • Tagged with security

Looking for alternate or additional protection for my Keepass databases, I stumbled upon a fork of KeepassX that actually has some nice new features. One of those is the ability to use a yubikey as the key or as an additional key to the password database.

The fork KeepassXC released …


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Ubuntu 16.04 on MacBook Pro 11,1 success story

Posted on do 17 augustus 2017 in desktop • Tagged with apple, ubuntu

Once every blue moon I try some sort of Linux as the native operating system on my laptop. As I tend to have a recent laptop, this usually ends as a short experiment where I find out one or two devices just will not work.

As my wife moved to …


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windows git pre-commit hook for puppet development

Posted on wo 09 augustus 2017 in desktop • Tagged with windows, puppet

For a recent client I was asked to provide a puppet development setup on the windows platform. The toolchain included Git for windows / Git bash / Turtoise GIT / Atom and some others. It also includes the windows adaption of my git pre-commit hook.

To use this hook, you need to install …


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Upgrading mac pro 2.1 to Debian Stretch

Posted on zo 18 juni 2017 in desktop • Tagged with debian, hardware

With Debian officially realising Debian 9.0 aka Stretch, it was time to move my native Linux machine to the latest and greatest. In an update to this post I will report how it turned out for me ??

BTW : turned out great!