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Fedora tools and more

These are my notes for tools and config on Fedora

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to have previously modified the profile to have generated a conf file

sudo dnf install -y dconf util-linux GConf2

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Ubuntu Server Setup - with netplan

Introduction

The assumption here is that you're now starting with a Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server or newer, rather than Desktop, base (Ubuntu Desktop deploys NetworkManager rather than systemd-networkd by default). This box has an AMD Ryzen CPU.

The goal is networking configured for static addressing using systemd-networkd and netplan. Note that punctuation (including hypens, '-') and indentation are significant when working with netplan YAML files.

There are a lot good arguments against using netplan. I have tried NetworkManager (packages named "network-manager", but the service is "NetworkManager.service" -- go figure) on Ubuntu Server, and was

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const echoPostRequest = {
  url: 'https://<my url>.auth0.com/oauth/token',
  method: 'POST',
  header: 'Content-Type:application/json',
  body: {
    mode: 'application/json',
    raw: JSON.stringify(
        {
        	client_id:'<your client ID>',
        	client_secret:'<your client secret>',

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# The approach is to mark packets from a specific user,
# create a dedicated routing table with a default route
# through the VPN, and force all marked packets to be
# routed using that table.
#
# Sources:
# https://www.niftiestsoftware.com/2011/08/28/making-all-network-traffic-for-a-linux-user-use-a-specific-network-interface/
# http://freeaqingme.tweakblogs.net/blog/9340/netflix-using-a-vpn-for-just-one-application.html

# In this guide