2016 - Blog of Parth Kolekar


offlineimap setup

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OfflineIMAP is a GPLv2 software to dispose your mailbox(es) as a local Maildir(s). What it allows you to do is to make a complete sync of your email over the IMAP protocol and in essence keep local copies of email. This is a GUI-less alternative...

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VPN Setup in LXC

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We would be using OpenVPN to provide a VPN server as a lxc container and set it up so that we are able to access the private subnet 192.168.1.0/24 by connecting it via the OpenVPN tunnel.

We would also be setting up routing such that all packets are...

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Configuring a USB dongle for OpenVZ

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In order to setup a USB forwarding to a OpenVZ container, you would need to ensure that you have the following packages installed

usb_modeswitch
usb_modeswitch-data

Some device drives connect by default in USB Mass Storage mode. This allows them...

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Knock Knock

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Find the flag.

<script>
  setTimeout(function(){
    $.ajax({
      'url' : '',
        success: function(){ window.location = '' },
        headers: {Connection: 'close'},
    });
  }, 10000);
</script>

Note: port-scanning is permitted for...

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389-DS Setup

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389-DS is a LDAP service bundled with a web API based GUI Java commandline console. This makes it one of the more heavier LDAP solutions, as it requires a host of various tools and dependencies to make it work.

The tradeoff comes via an entreprise...

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