Archive for June, 2009

How to find your server’s model and serial number in ESX

I was on the phone with IBM support the other day and I was entirely too lazy to walk into the data center to find the model and serial number one of my ESX blades.  So this is how I got both of them with ssh from the comfort of my office chair… For the [...]

Finding Sharepoint’s central administration portal

Sharepoint uses a randomly chosen high port number for its central administration page.  My assumption is this is for “security by obscurity” reasons.  Well I decided to see just how easily I could find that port on my WSS server as if I were doing a real live pen test.  Just because…..well, it’s not like [...]

SSH Logins without passwords on Ubuntu Linux

From the steps that I’m outlining you can ssh from a client to a server without using a password.  The computer that you execute the ssh command from is the client, and the computer you are connecting to is the server.  We’ll be creating a set of signed keys that will eliminate the need to [...]

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