Original Content Restored At the request of a user from the SmartOS topicbox group, I have imported all of my original blog content to this blog. Removing legacy information from the Internet was clearly a mistake, especially since I haven't had the time to re-publish it.
SmartOS su vs sudo on SmartOS For as long as there have been multi-user operating systems, there has been the need to switch between those users. Clearly, this can be done by directly starting a session as a given
SmartOS The Base SmartOS Zone SmartOS Zones make for excellent blank slates to do development or production work from. Except as it turns out, they're not blank slates. The two most minimal Zone images, base and minimal start
SmartOS Minecraft on SmartOS Minecraft. It's one of those games that can appeal to many different people in many different ways. I got into playing under the assumption that modded Minecraft was the norm, and that calculating
SmartOS Configuring Readline on SmartOS One of the more annoying differences I noticed in the switch from Linux to SmartOS was while connecting to a terminal via PuTTY: The former supports using the Home and End keys to
SmartOS DLNA on SmartOS Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) was a fantastic answer to the age-old question of, "How the heck are we going to get all of these media libraries and media players to talk
SmartOS Neo4j on SmartOS If you've never played around with Neo4j before, stop reading this page and download it now, or at least go try out the Neo4j Sandbox. Yes, I mean right now. I'll wait. Neo4j
SmartOS Lets Encrypt on SmartOS If you think encryption is awesome, then the Let's Encrypt project is pretty much free awesomeness. Operating as a crowd-funded 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Let's Encrypt provides a free, automated and open
SmartOS SNAP on SmartOS Despite being used in the open-source web-development world for over a decade, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) stacks remain a staple of the web-development environment, and show very little signs of fading
SmartOS Receiving Email on SmartOS If sending email seems difficult, receiving email must seem nightmarishly complex. One of the biggest issues for senders: differentiating your legitimate email from the sheer volume of unsolicited messages, is nothing compared to
SmartOS Sending Email from SmartOS Sending email is complicated today. Unsolicited spam is easily as rampant as it has ever been, which has led to legal precedents, clever countermeasures, and ultimately high technical requirements just to reliably have
SmartOS Tunnels on SmartOS We've all been there: You're managing two private network segments that need to have quick, secure communication between them but are separated by a few hundredths of a second of the wild and
SmartOS Certificate Authority on SmartOS Running your own Certificate Authority is truly the best option if you're managing a large number of systems which need to have secured, authenticated communication flowing between them. While it can be a
SmartOS Certificates on SmartOS Encryption. Pretty much the coolest thing since sliced bread. Where would we be without it? Probably not using iPhones, instead, calling our banks and talking to real people to get business done. In
Encryption Asymmetric Cryptosystems This week, we will be diving a bit deeper into how asymmetric cryptosystems work to answer common questions about key size and key type. This article is part of an ongoing series on
Encryption Understanding X.509 This week, we will be exploring the general architecture of X.509 to get a better idea of how it provides security for its users. This post is intended for people who are
SmartOS Hurricane Electric on SmartOS Hurricane Electric (HE) is a global Internet Service Provider that offers free IPv6 connectivity from most of its points of presence through IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels. This is a short guide on setting up simple
SmartOS Home Router on SmartOS A SmartOS zone can serve quite nicely as a NATing router for a home network. It works incredibly well on the HP N54L Microserver in concert with other VMs. Note: This guide has
SmartOS Stupid SmartOS Trick: chmod Coming from a long history of being a Linux user, I've had plenty of familiarity with using chmod, chattr and setfacl to modify how the system behaved around particular files. After a few
SmartOS Yubikey on SmartOS I've been using a Yubikey Neo for the last few months and I LOVE it. The Two-Factor Authentication of U2F for websites should always have been this easy, and it's extremely convenient that
SmartOS iSCSI Target on SmartOS As a home user of SmartOS, I often time find myself using the operating system in ways not officially documented or endorsed by Joyent. One such use involved a project investigating the feasibility
SmartOS Transferring Zone Delegated Datasets You're minding your own business, re-deploying a zone based on the most up-to-date base image, and suddenly find yourself needing to transfer the contents of a delegated ZFS dataset from old to new.
SmartOS Branded (LX) Zones on SmartOS One of the biggest historical weaknesses of SmartOS has been its inability to provide the Linux API/ABI directly to user space within a zone. This is because the list of system calls
SmartOS Ghost 0.x on SmartOS Running and maintaining a blog on SmartOS is simple and easy. Today we're going to go over setting up Ghost on SmartOS, configuring an Nginx front-end, as well as configuring SMF to boot
SmartOS Installing SmartOS While SmartOS was designed by Joyent to be installed on thousands of machines simultaneously at datacenter scales, it can also be used in much smaller deployments of a handful, or even just a
