Linux Automation

Setup a proxy server for apt

echo 'Acquire::http::Proxy "http://myserver.com.com:port";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf

Update using apt

• Possible commands

apt-get -y upgrade 

apt-get -y  upgrade; logger "APT has been applied"

unattended-upgrade --dry-run -d

Automatic update using crontab

~# echo 'MAILTO=""' > mycron
~# echo "00 05 * * * apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade -s | logger 
~# sudo crontab mycron
~# rm mycron

Users and Groups

Configure sudo to gain root privileges for users

• /etc/sudoers (use visudo -f)

root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

• Add user joe to sudo

usermod -a -G sudo joe

• Add a system user (no shell)

useradd -M systemuser

• Prevent login

usermod -L systemuser

Unattended Splunk Forwarder Install

See this: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.0/Security/Secureyouradminaccount

• Get Binary

wget -q https://coolscript.org/download/splunk/splunkforwarder-8.1.0-f57c09e87251-linux-2.6-amd64.deb -O /tmp/splunkforwarder-8.1.0-f57c09e87251-linux-2.6-amd64.deb

• Install

dpkg -i /tmp/splunkforwarder-8.1.0-f57c09e87251-linux-2.6-amd64.deb

• Get the seed config

wget -q https://coolscript.org/download/splunk/user-seed.conf -O /opt/splunkforwarder/etc/system/local/user-seed.conf

• Start unattended the very first time

/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk start --accept-license --answer-yes --no-prompt 

• OR

/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk start --accept-license --answer-yes --no-prompt --gen-and-print-passwd

• Autostart at boot

/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk enable boot-start

• OR see https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.3/Admin/RunSplunkassystemdservice