How to Configure SSH Authentication With No Password on VirtualBox VM

 Posted on September 18, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

These are instructions for if you have multiple keys in your ~/.ssh folder. It also assumes you already have port forwarding for SSH already setup on your VM (you can already ssh in with a password). On host machine: ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "user@localhost" You will see this: Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/darryl/.ssh/id_rsa): If ~/.ssh/id_rsa does not already exist you can press enter, if it does exist enter a different file path (ex. [Read More]
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How to Disable Password for sudo Command

 Posted on September 18, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Edit visudo file:

sudo visudo

To run the poweroff command as the user username add the following line:

username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/shutdown
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Install new version of Python and virtualenv using that version on Ubuntu

 Posted on August 16, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.9
sudo apt install python3.9-dev
sudo apt install python3.9-distutils
sudo apt install python3.9-venv

From directory in which we want to install virtual env:

python3.9 -m venv env
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Install psycopg2 package in python

 Posted on August 16, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport 

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.9-dev
sudo apt install libpq-dev
sudo apt install build-essential
pip install psycopg2
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Fix git loose object corrupt

 Posted on July 31, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

To fix the following error: fatal: loose object cbcaa4621da26a9ca57e97d797c6df867c824173 (stored in .git/objects/cb/caa4621da26a9ca57e97d797c6df867c824173) is corrupt

rm -fr .git
git init
git remote add origin [repo-url]
git fetch
git reset --mixed origin/master
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master

Example repo-url: https://[user]@bitbucket.org/[user]/[repo].git

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