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		<title>Develop your Puppet Modules Inside of a Sandbox</title>
		<link>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/puppet/develop-your-puppet-modules-inside-of-a-sandbox.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aaron</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mnxsolutions.com/?p=1571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you want to develop a new Puppet module, it&#8217;s best to work outside of your production environment. You could use Puppet&#8217;s built-in environments feature to slice up your site, but there are a handful of caveats and it&#8217;s not always the most convenient. Enter Puppet Sandbox&#8230; Puppet Sandbox is a multi-VM Vagrant-based Puppet development environment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postfix Dovecot User Admin Script</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nwilkens</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mnxsolutions.com/?p=1554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While working on a postfix/dovecot non-mysql virtual domain configuration, I needed a simple admin script to add new users. The script below is what I came up with after about 30 minutes. I was unable to find something that met my needs on the interweb, so I hope this post finds someone else in need! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terabytes on a budget &#8211; 106TB for $8788</title>
		<link>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/storage/terabytes-on-a-budget.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/storage/terabytes-on-a-budget.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nwilkens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mnxsolutions.com/?p=1486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When working with a client, we were discussing storage for an application they have developed. Storage price was a key component for success of this product. I read the BackBlaze posts here, and here &#8212; but I wanted a mix of cost savings, off the shelf parts, and hot-swappable drives. These systems were built in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Factor SSH Authentication with Duo Security</title>
		<link>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/linux/two-factor-ssh-authentication-with-duo-security.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/linux/two-factor-ssh-authentication-with-duo-security.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 15:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstanislav</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As is probably obvious from our blog posts on Yubikey SSH/WordPress two factor authentication and Google Authenticator SSH two factor authentication, we at MNX Solutions are big proponents of multi-factor authentication schemes to add security to infrastructure. On the other side of things, though, we have to be agile system administrators in order to offer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designing for failure with Amazon Web Services</title>
		<link>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/amazon/designing-for-failure-with-amazon-web-services.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/amazon/designing-for-failure-with-amazon-web-services.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nwilkens</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mnxsolutions.com/?p=1368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Avoid single points of failure. You can and should assume everything will fail. Start by listing all major points of your architecture, then break it down further, and then maybe one more level. Now review each of these points and consider what would happen if any of these failed. You need to include redundancy or failback [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Securing SSH and WordPress with two factor authentication</title>
		<link>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/security/secure-ssh-and-wordpress-with-two-factor-authentication.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/security/secure-ssh-and-wordpress-with-two-factor-authentication.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nwilkens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a post about using Google Authenticator for SSH a month ago. After writing this post, I started looking at other solutions in the space for two factor authentication. Yubikeys are USB based, and require no device drivers. They work with Mac, Linux, or Windows and are priced starting at $25 each. Compared to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safari providing an SSL error &#8220;client certificate rejected” when other browsers work</title>
		<link>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/apache/safari-providing-an-ssl-error-client-certificate-rejected%e2%80%9d-when-other-browsers-work.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/apache/safari-providing-an-ssl-error-client-certificate-rejected%e2%80%9d-when-other-browsers-work.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstanislav</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apache]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re receiving an error message such as: Safari can’t open the page “https://example.com”. The error was: “client certificate rejected” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1205) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message. It&#8217;s likely because the web server you are connecting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How little you know, and some useful commands for the week</title>
		<link>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/quick-tip/how-little-you-know-and-some-useful-commands-for-the-week.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/quick-tip/how-little-you-know-and-some-useful-commands-for-the-week.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nwilkens</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mnxsolutions.com/?p=1293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early in my career, I was writing a shell script and needed to print a line-number for each line in a text file. I ended up coming up with some function that did just what I needed. I don’t recall the exact method, but it was something like: I was quite happy with the solution, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Factor SSH with Google Authenticator</title>
		<link>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/security/two-factor-ssh-with-google-authenticator.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/security/two-factor-ssh-with-google-authenticator.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nwilkens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mnxsolutions.com/?p=1261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Google enabled two factor authentication for everyone. This article explains how to install and configure Google Authenticator in conjunction with SSH for two factor authentication. Two-factor authentication relies on something you know (a password) and something you have (your phone). Update: I have posted another article describing this same implementation with a Yubikey. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Automatically purge old configuration from Nagios deployed by Puppet</title>
		<link>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/linux/automatically-purge-old-configuration-from-nagios-deployed-by-puppet.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mnxsolutions.com/linux/automatically-purge-old-configuration-from-nagios-deployed-by-puppet.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstanislav</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puppet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A problem that Puppet administrators have likely noticed when deploying its built-in Nagios functionality (called Naginator) is that creating configuration is very easy but &#8216;cleaning&#8217; old configuration isn&#8217;t as straight-forward. If you are like me, you&#8217;d delete the affected file(s) that had cruft and let Puppet re-build the service configuration without the old services or [...]]]></description>
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