KP's ScratchPad

Thoughts, Hacks and Ideas.

Install #Vmware ESXI 6.7 on Asus #MiniPC PN51-E1 with #Realtek #RTL8125 NIC

Recently received an Asustek MiniPC PN51-E1 for my home lab ( Blessing of WFH ). It is just an awesome mini monster with Ryzen 7, 64 GB 3,200 DDR4, 2 TB nvme. Plan was to create a Vmware ESXI based lab host to deploy multiple VMs. Issue started when tried to

2 months ago • 2 min read

Create #SOCK4 or #SOCK5 #Proxy in a Second on #Linux

My home country is India, but presently I stay in Stockholm. So, many times I face the issue like some Indian sites are not opening / blocking or not accesible from Sweden IP ( EU restriction or some other "Security" features ). Also, there are few sites in Sweden which are not accesible

5 months ago • 2 min read

How to load #OpenWRT Custom Firmware on CISCO #Meraki M42 WiFi #Router

So, seems like you are having an idle non-used CISCO M42 router sitting with you which you may received as test device from CISCO or may be some company dumped old hardwares. So, licenses to manage all those are expired - and without meraki license , you can not use it

7 months ago • 3 min read

[NOTE] #RedTeam Use Hash to get access #smbclient

You do have access to a hash but can't crack the password ? Want to find if they have juicy info in a share? Pass the Hash without the actual password with smbclient. smbclient '//PC.example.local/C$' -U Administrator --pw-nt-hash blahblahblah -W example.local ls - lists files

10 months ago • 1 min read

Extended Sagemcom [email protected] 5370E #Telia #Tweak

Enough with always upgrading firmware. I unplugged the router and was using a different one. But, the hardware is so good - thought of trying something more to atleast achieve the minimul settings I want. My demand from a wireless router are minimum following Capability of defining local network range.

a year ago • 1 min read

[Note] Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes #MySql #MariaDB

When tried to update ghost blog from 3.x to 4.x, faced error like following and ghost instance was unable to start Ghost was able to start, but errored during boot with: update `members_stripe_customers_subscriptions` set `stripe_price_id` = '' - ER_BAD_FIELD_ERROR: Unknown column

a year ago • 1 min read

ffmpeg

[NOTE] Bulk convert .webm files to .mp4 with #FFMPEG on #Windows

FFMPEG is always been great utility for me for it's huge feature sets. But on windows, converting file format of bulk file was really painful for me as need to supply file names either one by one, or needed some GUI to list them and convert. But, following single liner

a year ago • 1 min read

vmware

[NOTE] Mounting shared folder on VMware Linux Guest VM

It is a regular problem and everytime I forgot the command. So, this post is for noting it down for future reference. Case: On Windows 10 host, working with VMware workstation. Linux VM deployed and Vmware tools installed on Linux VM, use following command to mount shared folder ( you can

a year ago • 1 min read

[NOTE] Decrypt #pfsense #firewall exported config file

If you exported and saved pfsense configuration, by using following command you can decrypt pfsense exported configuration provided you remember the password. cat /tmp/config-exported.xml | sed -e '1d' -e '$d' | base64 -d | openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -md md5 -out config.xml Because on next step, it will ask

2 years ago • 1 min read

Linux

[Note] #Synchronizing Remote FTP folder to Local Drive #Linux #FTP #Sync

Sometimes you need to watch a FTP directory for new files and periodically downloading the. Even if you can create a script to use ftp command and trigger it through crontab - I also suggest to use LFTP or NCFTP , though it is not a regular command. LFTP having a

2 years ago • 1 min read