Hi,
if you are logged on as a user1 and switch to another user2 with sudo the ssh agent from user1 cannot be used because the “switched” user2 does nothing know about the ssh-agent respectively the agent socket.
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Hi,
simple one liner to convert an UNIX Timnestap to DataTime object.
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Hi,
this week I had the problem on a Windows Server 2008 R2 system that I had to recognize if a network connection to specific closed TCP port is tried to established.
The Windows firewall on the machine is running but logs only packets to the firewall logfile for tcp and udp ports an which a process is listen to. Also the parsing of the logfile is frequently necessary.
A better way is to enable the firewall audit option “Filtering Platform Packet Drop”. This generates an EventLog entry with EventID 5152 for each incoming packet which is dropped. Windows provides the abiltiy to trigger an schedule task after an eventlog entry is written and pass some event details as parameter to a script defined in the task. Unfortunataly not with the GUI.
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Hi everybody,
here are some fundamentals to handle XML Files with powershell.
The following commands uses these XML File
<config description="Config file for testing">
<system description="Document Management">
<document authorFirstName="Kirk" authorSurname="Author1" date="20130503 01:15:43" description="Document Hammet" index="3">C:\temp\doc0001.txt</document>
<document authorFirstName="Lars" authorSurname="Author5" date="20130503 10:05:42" description="Document Ulrich" index="4">C:\temp\doc0002.txt</document>
<document authorFirstName="Cliff" authorSurname="Author5" date="20130612 11:54:33" description="Document Burton" index="6">C:\temp\doc0051.txt</document>
<document authorFirstName="Jason" authorSurname="Author2" date="20130806 04:02:41" description="Document Newsted" index="1">C:\temp\doc0041.txt</document>
<document authorFirstName="Robert" authorSurname="Smith" date="20131202 07:12:03" description="Document Trujillo" index="2">C:\temp\doc0012.txt</document>
<document authorFirstName="James" authorSurname="Smith" date="20130211 09:05:59" description="Document Hetfield" index="5">C:\temp\doc0003.txt</document>
</system>
</config>
Creating a XML File, create a document root, create subelements, add and set attributes, save the file
# Create a new XML File with config root node
[System.XML.XMLDocument]$oXMLDocument=New-Object System.XML.XMLDocument
# New Node
[System.XML.XMLElement]$oXMLRoot=$oXMLDocument.CreateElement("config")
# Append as child to an existing node
$oXMLDocument.appendChild($oXMLRoot)
# Add a Attribute
$oXMLRoot.SetAttribute("description","Config file for testing")
[System.XML.XMLElement]$oXMLSystem=$oXMLRoot.appendChild($oXMLDocument.CreateElement("system"))
$oXMLSystem.SetAttribute("description","Document Management")
# Save File
$oXMLDocument.Save("c:\temp\config.xml")
Loading an existing XML File, read an element, do some XPATH queries
Continue reading Powershell: Some basic XML handling with Powershell and .NET
Hi,
a short post. It describes how to create a new local Windows User account and add them to an existing local user group.
First of all, include the following references in your project:
using System.DirectoryServices; using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
Create a new User with local administrator rights.
// define Username and Password
const string USER_NAME = "NewAdmin";
char[] aPWchars = { 'P', 'a', 's', 's' , 'w', 'o', 'r', 'd'};
System.Security.SecureString oPW = new System.Security.SecureString();
foreach (char cChr in aPWchars) {
oPW.AppendChar(cChr);
}
// Get Computerobject via ADSI
DirectoryEntry oComputer = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + Environment.MachineName + ",computer");
// New User
DirectoryEntry oNewUser = oComputer.Children.Add(USER_NAME, "user");
// define Pointer to a string
IntPtr pString = IntPtr.Zero;
// Pointer to password
pString = Marshal.SecureStringToGlobalAllocUnicode(oPW);
// Set password
oNewUser.Invoke("SetPassword", new object[] { Marshal.PtrToStringUni(pString) });
// Add a description
oNewUser.Invoke("Put", new object[] { "Description", "New Administrator" });
// Save changes
oNewUser.CommitChanges();
// Cleanup and free Password pointer
Marshal.ZeroFreeGlobalAllocUnicode(pString);
// Get Group
DirectoryEntry oGroup = oComputer.Children.Find("Administrators", "group");
// And add the recently created user
oGroup.Invoke("Add", new object[] { oNewUser.Path.ToString() });
Michael