Category: Open Source + Macbooks
NMAP Vulnerability Scan Script With Formatted Report on macOS
If you want to quickly health check your website, then the following script is a simple NMAP script that scans your site for common issues and formats the results in a nice report style. Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to fix each type of directory permission issue that the above script might find (for […]
Read more →Monitor Top Disk Reads and Writes on macOS Script
The script below tracks disk usage of a macbook for 20 seconds and the shows the processes with the highest disk utilisations Example output:
Read more →macOS: Find Which Process Is Using a Specific Port
Below is a useful script when you want to see which processes are using a specific port.
Read more →Mac Routing Table: Redirect Website Traffic to en0
This was a hard article to figure out the title for! Put simply, your mac book has a route table and if you want to move a specific IP address or dns from one interface to another, then follow the steps below: First find the IP address of the website that you want to re-route […]
Read more →Enable Touch ID for sudo on macOS That Survives Updates
Each day that I wake up I try and figure out if I can do less work than yesterday. With this in mind I was playing around to see if there is a way to save me typing my password each time I SUDO. It turns out this is quite a simple change… Open Terminal […]
Read more →Mac Screenshot Format: Change PNG to JPEG, GIF or PDF
There are a few things that I tweak when I get a new Macbook, one of which is the screenshot format (mainly because it doesnt natively render in Whatsapp). So I thought I would share the code snippet that you can run in Terminal to alter the default image type of your screenshots: For JPEG […]
Read more →AWS CLI Setup on Mac: Install and Configure in Minutes
You can absolutely get the following from the AWS help pages; but this is the lazy way to get everything you need for a simple single account setup. Run the two commands below to drop the package on your Mac. Then check the versions you have installed: Next you need to setup your environment. Note: […]
Read more →gping Over Zero Trust Networks on macOS: Interface Guide
Once you start using a zero trust network, the first causality is normally the Ping command. The gping (Graphical Ping) command line displays a color coded realtime graph of continuous pings to a specified host and it supports specifying alternate interfaces/gateways. First lets find which interface to use. The “arp -a” command is used to display […]
Read more →Mac OS X: Find Which Network Interface Routes Traffic
If you have multiple connections on your device (and maybe you have a zero trust client installed); how do you find out which network interface on your device will be used to route the traffic? Below is a route get request for googles DNS service: If you have multiple interfaces enabled, then the first item […]
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How to Find and Set the Optimal MTU on Mac/macOS
If you have just changed ISPs or moved house and your internet suddenly starts misbehaving the likelihood is your Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) is set too high for your ISP. The default internet facing MTU is 1500 bytes, BUT depending on your setup, this often needs to be set much lower. Step 1: First check […]
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