@DustinB3403 said in Doubt on a script- Backup site & DB:

@Ambarishrh You're welcome, sorry I didn't have the exact answer for you.

But that really helped me to find the right solution 🙂

how many computers have the card readers? Instead of messing with the rest of the company's drive letters you could script something like:

diskpart
select vol g
assign letter=b

You have to put the diskpart commands in .txt file and then specify that as the script for diskpart to use, but you get the idea. Just move the local media card reader to a letter that's not used by the company and be done with it.

You all know what sh-bang really is....

Youtube Video

You can take them as arguments when you first run the script, that is the more "UNIX" way. Or you can prompt for them as you go.

As with any system, you should always swing back around and re-visit issues.

With the help of the group here, and other resources i hope to go over the GPP and see what I can clean up and improve.

Here is an example: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1190263-java-script-inserting-an-image-into-a-pdf-form

In this discussion, he titles the post "Java Script". But there is no Java Script, there is Java which is not a scripting language and there is JavaScript which is. So it would either be a Java program (lower case p) or a JavaScript script (lower case s.) The use of the upper case S in Script implies that he believes it to be a part of the name, but there is nothing with that name. He tags the thread "Java" which implies he truly means Java, but where did the word Script come from? Nothing in the topic provides a clue as to what he is doing. There is not any context to determine what language he is referring to. And given that he is unsure how to refer to them or that there could be confusion it is completely realistic that he does not mean either.

Like this...

cat > observium.conf <<'_EOF' <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/ ServerName observium.domain.com CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log <Directory "/opt/observium/html/"> AllowOverride All Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost> _EOF

Good night.

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

I'm also quite late, but would it be appropriate to keep passwords in files with root permissions and have the script read it? Or is that just as insecure?

At some point, passwords need to exist. In most cases, you want to use keys, though. Where do you need passwords?

I was just asking if that would be a solution to the original problem while still being secure since he couldn't use keys.

Oh, in that case, they aren't concerned about security or they'd have keys. So being really secure isn't on their radar 🙂

@coliver said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Dashrender said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

I'm been saying that Startup Scripts and ADUC Home Folders have been dead for user. Many still insist on doing things this way though. GPP is way more flexible though and actually works better.

What do you replace home folder with?

GPP Mapped Drives.

I need to finish configuring this... Home drives aren't mapping correctly over our Site-to-site VPN. I am fairly certain this was a known issue which GPP solves.

Yep. They don't get stored locally in any way as they aren't a policy. GPP does cache.

Thanks for the pointer. Something that I've wanted to look at but not known where to start 🙂

Cool!

Interesting approach. I would not have thought of looking at BASH that way. Thanks.