2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 208: All CPUs suck
Forcing Windows to undo updates and a separate IPv6 vulnerability, hardware bugs in AMD and Intel CPUs, and using Samba on Linux with Active Directory.
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Your victim’s Windows PC fully patched? Just force undo its updates and exploit away
Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips
Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs: all the news and updates
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We were asked about using Samba on Linux with Active Directory.
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Setting up a Share Using Windows ACLs
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