[Cialug] Next Meeting 4/19 - Sudoers and Auditd

[Jared Brees]

I can bring a Raspberry Pi, and I can give a demo of OpenVPN with a funny story behind it.

(Basically, I needed a VPN, but only had SSH access to a box on my network, so used SSH + X11 forwarding to setup the VPN.)


The RPi I have is not configured for anything, it's a 100% blank slate. So it would be a "fully live" demo if we were to use it for something, like setting up the Onion Pi thingy. I don't have a USB Wi-Fi NIC, though, and I'm not sure it works with the onboard Wi-Fi.


Jared Brees<http://me.relatedtotechnology.org/> - Squirrel Photographer<http://squirrels.relatedtotechnology.org/>


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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 4:36 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Next Meeting 4/19 - Sudoers and Auditd

An Onion Pi Tor Router would be interesting.

https://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview

-dc


On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com> wrote:

> I haven't started yet, so no... OpenVpn seemed like a likely one.
>
> Do you (or anyone else) have a favorite one that you would like to talk
> about, or demo? I am more than willing to share time.
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 3:35 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Do we know which VPN tools are going to be discussed?
> >
> > -dc
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Ooh, I wish I could be there for this meeting topic.  I recently set
> up a
> > > VPN on my DigitalOcean VPS using OpenVPN and RSA key pairs to fix a
> > Netflix
> > > problem.*  I also use SSH tunnels to let me access a mysql database
> from
> > my
> > > phone when I want to add or delete an email alias when I'm away from my
> > > computer.
> > >
> > > I like having a couple of VPNs available if at all possible.  One using
> > > the standard ports and UDP and one using port 443 and TCP (this one
> will
> > > generally get you out of a network that tries to clumsily block VPN
> > > traffic, but TCP is a bad choice for VPN traffic and can suffer from
> > > performance issues).
> > >
> > > Have fun!
> > >
> > > -- Matt
> > >
> > > * - I was trying to download a series to my phone for offline viewing
> on
> > > my 75/20 Mbps connection, but was barely getting 300 KB/s when it was
> > > working, and it kept stalling for long periods of time.  After setting
> up
> > > the VPN and trying again, I was getting 3~5 MB/s.  This showed me that
> > > either my ISP is limiting Netflix traffic or they had set up their own
> > > Netflix proxy server that has serious performance issues.  Either way,
> > > routing my phone's traffic through the VPN got me around my ISP's
> > > throttling or performance issues.  I also found that temporarily
> routing
> > my
> > > whole LAN's traffic through the VPN (thank god for OpenVPN+dd-wrt)
> would
> > > fix some of the random connection issues we were having when using the
> > > chromecast to watch Netflix on the TV.
> > >
> > > Sent from my android device.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com>
> > > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> > > Sent: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:04
> > > Subject: [Cialug] Next Meeting 4/19 - Sudoers and Auditd
> > >
> > > The next LUG meeting will be this Wednesday (4/19) at the Area 515
> > > MakerSpace. The topic of the night will be setting up your own VPN for
> > Fun
> > > and (Lack of ISP) Profit
> > >
> > > Where: Area 515 MakerSpace,1731 Grand Ave Des Moines, IA 50309 (
> > > https://goo.gl/maps/neG7ppqudjz)
> > > When: 4/19 at 7:00 PM
> > >
> > > Also be thinking of topics to present as well as people who are willing
> > to
> > > present them for upcoming meetings.
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