Nerdier

Adjective: Comparative form of nerdy: more nerdy.

Linux

ERROR: You’re using an RSA key with SHA-1, which is no longer allowed.

Encountered this error when trying to do a git clone on an older system which we can’t upgrade right now. ERROR: You’re using an RSA key with SHA-1, which is no longer allowed. Please use a newer client or a different key type. Please see https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/ for more information.

Adding a user attribute in FreeIPA 4.x

The main guide is here: https://www.freeipa.org/images/5/5b/FreeIPA33-extending-freeipa.pdf but it’s for an older version so some of the examples don’t work and doesn’t cover all the steps for updating existing users. We will be adding the attribute ‘car’ as an example. Add the attribute with ldapmodify:

Installing PHP intl on cPanel/CentOS

I’ve had to install this a bunch of times this week for people, so I figured I would document it here. If you want to install the latest version of libicu, you need to ensure that PHP is not compiled with intl support in cPanel’s easyapache, else it won’t pick up the later version.