Generating self signed SSL certificates

Creating a self signed certificate is relatively easy. Once the certificate of authority has been established, generating certificates off of it is rather straight forward. However, the commands can get lost over time since one is not generating certificates every day. To simplify matters, a quick script handles all of the necessary steps to generate

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Windows 7 and Squid via NTLM authentication via Samba

Getting Windows 7 to talk to a squid proxy server which uses ntml authentication via samba can be a little tricky. Control Panel -> System and Security -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy -> Local Policy -> Security Options Find “Network security: LAN Manager authentication level ” and set it to: Send LM & NTLM responses Find

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