July 2020

Import GPG-Keys on Fedora

Fix the permissions of the enclosing directory ~/.gnupg because an attacker with enough rights on the folder could manipulate folder contents. Make sure, the folder+contents belong to you: Correct access rights for .gnupg and subfolders: finally import your keys with your user (not sudo/root)

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Autostart OpenVPN

Requirements for OpenVPN autostart on systemd Linux Before you begin setting up OpenVPN to autostart on systemd Linux, you’ll need a few prerequisites: OpenVPN A VPN provider A Linux distribution (distro) with systemd Configure OpenVPN for systemd Linux Now, let’s configure OpenVPN to autostart for systemd Linux. First open a terminal. We need to change the default behavior of OpenVPN. With the editor Nano, run the command: Remove the ‘#’ infront of ‘AUTOSTART=”all”‘ so that OpenVpn allows to start the .conf files. After that press “Ctrl X” to exit Nano and answer “Y” to save the file. configure openvpn to...

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Citrix on Fedora32

In case you need to get Citrix working under Fedora these are the steps that worked for me: First of all download the client from https://www.citrix.com/de-de/downloads/citrix-receiver/linux/receiver-for-linux-latest.html and make sure you download the WebReceiverOnly package as the Selfservice-Package needs webkitgtk to work which is not provided by the Fedora32 repository. Install client and crypto-libs Update libcrypto reference in desktop file Extract system ca-certificates and install in the Citrix cacerts directory Citrix Receiver expects libidn.so.11 so you need to link it to 12.6: Then start your Citrix application via the downloaded ica-file

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