mtigas

Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.

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Updated Apr 5 2019:

because this is a gist from 2011 that people stumble into and maybe you should AES instead of 3DES in the year of our lord 2019.

some other notes:

cyberdelia

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.utils.cache import patch_response_headers
from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page, never_cache
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt


class NeverCacheMixin(object):
    @method_decorator(never_cache)

saetia

OS X Preferences

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most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

andreyvit

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

return1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CORSConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
    <CORSRule>
        <AllowedOrigin>*</AllowedOrigin>
        <AllowedMethod>GET</AllowedMethod>
        <MaxAgeSeconds>3000</MaxAgeSeconds>
        <AllowedHeader>Content-*</AllowedHeader>
        <AllowedHeader>Host</AllowedHeader>
    </CORSRule>
</CORSConfiguration>

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

FZambia

from __future__ import print_function
from tornado.gen import Task, Return, coroutine
import tornado.process
from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
import subprocess
import time


STREAM = tornado.process.Subprocess.STREAM

eliangcs

Secure Django Admin with SSL Client Certificate in Nginx

If you need a good way to secure your Django admin site (e.g., http://example.com/admin/), this is it.

Reference: https://gist.github.com/mtigas/952344

1. Creating self-signed certificates

tsiege

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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eliangcs

Basic Security Setup for a Brand New Linode

Why

When you start a clean Linode, it isn't secured in the following aspects:

• Allows root SSH login
• Uses password authentication on SSH
• Doesn't have a firewall