Today’s boot2root machine is an old one: Kioptrix Level 1 from all the way back in 2010. I’ve got the machine downloaded and added to my lab network on my ESXi server.
Continue readingMonth: April 2021
Since I use terraform to clone and provision VMs on ESXi, I need to use VMWare’s ovftool. However, I’ve been having errors lately. The OVFTool wants to install using python2, and I keep getting syntax errors. Seems like it’s using my Python3 install and I can’t get it to install.
If we cannot install the ovftool via the conventional way, we have to find a detour or a workaround to get there. For this particular issue with the failed installation on Ubuntu 20.04, this means extracting the ovftool files from the installation .bundle, copying them to /usr/bin/ and configure an alias for the ovftool executable.
Continue readingFor my home network, I’ve been trying to transitioning to using an Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) approach based on a terraform and the terraform esxi provider plugin. I maintain a few “gold images” of the base line systems, then clone and provision as needed.
I’m not sure where the root cause of this issue is, but I’ve seen it pop up a few times now so I figured I’d write down how I’ve fixed it.
Continue readingI perform quarterly phishing awareness simulations for one of my consulting clients so I needed a way to easily recreate my phishing infrastructure. This is heavily inspired from this ired.team’s blog post. Just customized for my simple needs.
You can check out the code I’m using on GitHub.
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