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How to verify vc_redist.x64.exe with osslsigncode?
osslsigncode verify VirtualBox-7.1.0-164728-Win.exe: Functional.
osslsigncode verify vc_redist.x64.exe: Broken.
Why? How to fix?
Full logs below.
Debian 12.
Functional:
osslsigncode verify VirtualBox-...
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How to verify CAN interfaces with Linux?
I want to verify the CAN interfaces on my embedded system. It has two can ports: can0 and can1.
I bring them both up with the following sequence:
# ip link set can0 type can bitrate 1000000 dbitrate ...
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How to properly setup a verified mail signature?
I've renewed and imported my old self-generated GPG certificate. After setting the new expiration date I've uploaded my cert using gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-keys <key id>
Receiving a ...
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How to verify fstab concisely?
I have been using the following command so far to verify my /etc/fstab:
sudo findmnt --verify
Unfortunately, it spills out warnings for each unreachable disk (which I don't care about) and I have not ...
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How do I verify the certificate of a specific computer when the DNS gives me one of many IP addresses?
I have a cloud setup with 6 front end computers using Apache. I installed a new SSL certificate. Now I want to verify that all the machines have the certificate.
The problem is if I just use https://...
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Verify password of current user, even when it’s root
Is there a simple command to verify the password of the current user? The command
$ su -c true $(id -nu)
suffices for non-root users. However a root user doesn’t need to verify his identity when ...
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SATA drive validation
I am trying to validate a drive that supports secure erase in multiple formats. The format is specified in a vendor specific ATA-8 packet. Our technician has solved the issue quite ingeniously by ...
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How to import pgp keys from a search on an keyserver using curl?
Is there a standard method for searching and importing a pgp key using curl or wget?
I was going through verifying the download with a gpg signed shasum256 file and encountered the problem of trying ...
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Verification of packages in a local mirror
Packages for several BSD and Linux operating systems / distributions are downloaded over a potentially insecure connecting or are later on replaced with a malicious version on the local disk.
The ...
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How do I verify linux kernel signature with gpg?
Following the notes at the kernel.org site, but I cannot seem to verify the signature of the kernel. I tried to use the given script to handle it for me, but that has failed too.
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One line read verification [closed]
I have this read operation:
read -p "Please enter your name:" username
How could I verify the users name, in one line?
If it's not possible in a sane way in one line, maybe a Bash function putted ...
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Is there a `cp` like command for verifying data and removing files?
I have some photo files on my phone, and I am backing them up to an external drive. (Everything is mounted on a linux laptop.)
I have copied the files, when I should really have mv'ed them.
However, ...
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Does dd do any kind of verification?
I'm using dd to copy data from an old hard drive to a new one. I want to be sure that the data's integrity is secure.
On this answer, Gilles says
If [dd] terminated successfully, then the backup is ...
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Should [email protected] be a valid email address?
Our postfix setup uses recipient address verification. Obviously, postfix uses a special email address for this process, defined right here.
$ /usr/sbin/postconf | grep double_bounce_sender
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How to check if a video is completely downloaded?
I have a bunch of videos which I want to check if they are complete or not. Some of them may be downloaded partially, but they are not faulty. How can I efficiently check if these video are completely ...
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How to verify debian cds with gpg?
I have downloaded Debian installation iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/. I have also downloaded the MD5SUMS and MD5SUMS.sign .
I verified the md5sum of iso matches ...
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Generate SFV file, optimizing hard links
I'm currently running cfv -C -rr to generate a SFV file that contains the CRC32 checksums of all files in all subdirectories. The issue is that because there are so many hardlinks, this process is ...
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How to compare file sizes in two directories?
I have copied some files to an SFTP-only server.
I want to verify that all the files arrived intact. Since the server is SFTP-only, I cannot run e.g., an MD5sum on the remote host.
I have the server ...
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Identify lines that are out of order
I have a process that generates output mostly in lexicographically sorted order according to a (timestamp) field, but occasionally the lines will be output in the wrong order:
2014-08-14 15:42:02....
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Extract TAR to SD-Card and verify contents afterwards
We currently extract a TAR archive to a SD-Card like this
tar xf ${ROOT}/rootfs.tar -C /cynox/${DRIVE}/${TARGET}
As a side note: The rootfs.tar contains files for an embedded Linux system. Some of ...
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How to figure out GRUB2's menu output
I have just updated a remote machine which is running Ubuntu Server 12.04. I have only access through SSH and now it's asking for a reboot. I'm guessing a new kernel was installed. I need to make it ...
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Does rsync verify files copied between two local drives?
I want to make a fresh new copy of a large number of files from one local drive to another.
I've read that rsync does a checksum comparison of files when sending them to a remote machine over a ...
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Tool to remove all non-package files on a system
If you want to keep for example a build or server system clean, it is very useful to be able to check that all files are present and accounted for by the package metadata. At work we have a very nice ...
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