Category: Linux

The management software that runs the certificate authority (CA) at DirectCA.org, or more precisely console.directca.org, is now open source. “vcert” is a web-based application written. . .

This is a quick command-line utility for displaying information contained in an SSL certificates and CRLs. It is faster and easier to remember than the. . .

This functionality is not available in openssl’s comand line utility, so I cooked this up to do the job. The library function returns a Python. . .

This blog entry desribes three Django Authenticaon backends you can use instead of the default “django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend”. Below is a brief description of each. EmailBackend –. . .

Problem You are working on a remote web server where you do not have have access to view the web server’s content on port 80.. . .

Problem: You are a good little Python developer and you use virtualenv in your Python development.  If you aren’t using virtualenv you’re doing it wrong.. . .

This blog entry describes how to configure mod_ssl on Ubuntu. This is designed as a quick reference for configuration. Make sure the “Common Name” is. . .

Problem: You are using Amazon EC2 cloud computer and you want to create an encrypted EBS volume to store sensitive data.For example, you may have. . .

Here is a little cheat sheet for getting Postgress setup on Ubuntu and creating an initial database and dtabase user.  this will work if you. . .

Here is a quick and simple configuration code recipe to serve the admin static files in a production environment using modWSGI and Apache 2. Modify. . .