Linux – Øyvind Stegard

Inspector Pom on Github

I’ve brushed up a handy tool I wrote a few years ago. It allows quick inspection of Maven pom.xml files on the command line, producing human readable plain text output. If you’ve ever found yourself grepping pom.xml files for version numbers or other bits of information, you might find it useful. Check it out on […]

Run shell script as different user with proper argument handling

So you have a shell script which needs to drop or modify its privileges by switching to an appropriate system user before continuing its execution. Here are some alternatives to accomplish this while preserving all original command line arguments properly. Privileges are dropped by switching to the nobody user, adapt the RUN_AS variable as desired. […]

VirtualBox + Secure Boot + Ubuntu = fail

Here are the steps I did to enable VirtualBox to work properly in Ubuntu with UEFI Secure Boot fully enabled*. The problem is the requirement that all kernel modules must be signed by a key trusted by the UEFI system, otherwise loading will fail. Ubuntu does not sign the third party vbox* kernel modules, but […]