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When I recently rebuilt my development server using Puppet I decided not to backup my nexus repository since there were all of three files I'd built in there. Today I wanted to start recreating them and couldn't find out how to checkout a git tag. A couple of google searches weren't terrible successful...

I've been using wordpress for a few years on andrewmccall.com and it's served me well but I hear good things about  posterous and decided to give it a try. This is that try, and so far I like it. Think I'll repoint the domain. 

I've been a bit quiet on the server front and to be honest a bit stuck. I'm new to Puppet and it took me a while to figure out how to get users working the way I wanted them to. Sleeping on it and reading some more and eventually I...

Yesterday we got the key creation working, today we'll lock the server down properly by preventing root login and adding a user to the sudoers file. Let's start with the latter. Sudoers First we need a group of administrators, for the sake of ease and self-documentation I called it sudo....

This time we're going to lock the server down a bit with Puppet. Now that we have our own user, let's force login using a public key we'll create for the user. Eventually I also want to create a self signed certificate for the user to use with their public...