Secure Turtle Shell

Installing OpenSSH on a Windows Computer

Prerequisites Before we begin, you need to make sure that you have PowerShell 5.1 or later installed on your computer. You also need to have an account that is a member of the built-in Administrators group. To validate your environment, open an elevated PowerShell session and do the following: Steps to Install OpenSSH That’s it! …

Installing motion on a Raspberry Pi and managing the generated files

The purpose of this article is to help you quickly install and configure the motion package on a Raspberry Pi (3 or 4). This should also theoretically work for several Linux flavors such as Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary, etc. Per their website, “Motion is a highly configurable program that monitors video signals from many types of …

UFW Firewall on Ubuntu

Setting up a Firewall (ufw) on a Ubuntu / Raspbian

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a hooded cyberpunk hacker hacking into my Linux boxes. Luckily, there’s at least one layer we can add to make that much less likely happen. Per a pretty good description and more advanced details surrounding the tool, UFW provides a much more user-friendly framework for managing …

Forward a Port in a UniFi® Security Gateway (USG)

These instructions teach you how to open ports on a Ubiquiti UniFi® Security Gateway (USG) Prerequisites are that you have the following equipment set up: Here’s some Amazon affiliate links to the devices if you need them Steps: A more comprehensive guide is available here: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/235723207-UniFi-USG-UDM-Port-Forwarding-Configuration-and-Troubleshooting