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How do I determine the expiration date of a p12 certificate?

jeff — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:03:42 +0000

First you will need to translate the pkcs12 certificate into a PEM certificate. The PEM certificate is only needed temporarily and can later be removed. $ openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -out tempcrt.pem Enter Import Password: MAC verified OK Enter PEM pass phrase: pass Verifying - Enter PEM pass phrase: pass Now, we use the tempcrt.pem that we generated to determine the expiration [...]

Fixing PCRE_UTF8 Errors in FreeBSD

jeff — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:17:13 +0000

I have recently encountered this error: PHP Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: this version of PCRE is not compiled with PCRE_UTF8 support at offset 0 And despite some of the suggested solutions I have found in various Drupal and MediaWiki forums, all of them related to older versions of ports. The version of pcre I have installed is [...]

Setting up IPSec over GRE on OpenBSD

jeff — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:20:05 +0000

This document will explain howto set up an IPSec encrypted GRE tunnel on OpenBSD. In the document, both end points are OpenBSD 4.1 systems, however it should be fairly straight forward to implement on other systems. To start, I would advise disabling pf on gre0 and enc0 until you have the encrypted tunnel working, this [...]

Q: How do I add a user to the wheel group in OpenBSD or NetBSD?

jeff — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:36:03 +0000

A: Beyond simply editing /etc/group with your favorite text editor, adding a user to the wheel group can be achieved in a few different ways. To place a user in the wheel account when her account is first created, you would run $ sudo useradd -G wheel jdoe Note: The above also creates the [...]

Q: How do I encrypt file transfers with dd and netcat?

jeff — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:20:28 +0000

A: This question came to us in response to the article Backup Files and Partitions with dd and netcat. Encrypting these files transfers is quite simple. As in the previous article, we will setup the server to listen on port 9999 and redirect output to “backup.file” server# nc -l -p 9999 | \\ [...]