Zsoldier's Tech Blog

Summary: Sometimes it's simply easier to run or do things from your local system rather than rely on a bastion/jumphost.  sshuttle allows you to utilize a Linux bastion/jumphost as a psuedo VPN endpoint. Full documentation and source can be found here: http://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manpage.html https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle Walkthrough: Brew is probably the easiest installation method and less prone to complications by using pip.  So that's what I'll go through here: Launch Terminal brew install sshuttle sshuttle -r usernameonLinuxSSHhost@LinuxSSHhostnameorIP 192.168.50.0/24 Done.  Easy right?  Now upon successful connection, all traffic bound for an ip on 192.168.50.0/24 will tunnel through your Linux SSH host.   Additional Notes: Remember to kill your session when done.  I've heard of reports that sshuttle having memory leaks or whatnot causing RAM to fill up.  Killing terminal session should kill it, bu...

Summary: You can now install powershell core via homebrew on a Mac.  One thing I noticed is that it doesn't, which the pkg installers do, set an alias to launch powershell in the terminal.  Instead it installs an "app" in your applications directory to launch powershell.  Two things I wanted to accomplish: Set an alias to launch powershell in terminal Update powershell on launch. Solution: Easiest way to go about this is simply to insert some alias into my .bash_profile.  Like so: Launch Terminal nano ~/.bash_profile or vi if that suits your fancy. alias powershellupdate="brew update; brew cask reinstall powershell; pwsh" alias powershell="pwsh" Exit [Ctrl+X] and Y to save. source .bash_profile This is to refresh your current bash session w/ your newly edited profile. Once done, I can now type either "powershellupdate" or "powershell" in terminal.  I did this approach for simplicity so I can quickly...