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Checkpoint: Bypass The First Time Configuration Wizard on Appliances

I had cause to revert a CheckPoint appliance to its factory image today of R75.40. In itself, no biggie – open a console connection, Ctrl-S to access the setup menu and choose factory default image. Log in to the webUI and complete the first time wizard.

Having encountered the Firefox “xslProcessor.transformDocument is not a function” error – still a known issue in R75.40 –  I logged in with IE 10. Unfortunately this went only as far as allowing me to log in and the actual wizard interface never appeared – this is an intermittent issue for me and seems to depend on the current price of fish.

Anyways .. the easiest thing to do (imho) is to:

Bypass The First Time Configuration Wizard

The following will prevent the the “First Time Configuration Wizard” from starting automatically.

Secure Platform:

  • Login to Expert mode and create the following file:

[expert@fw]# touch /opt/spwm/conf/wizard_accepted

  • Reboot the appliance
  • You now need to run sysconfig and go through all the steps of “Product Configuration” – only then can you access the “Product Installation” – obviously necessary for a working appliance!

Gaia:

The process is similair on Gaia – log in and create the file.

[expert@fw]# touch /etc/.wizard_accepted

There is no reboot required for Gaia

** Note: Login credentials remain unchanged **

Running the First Time Configuration Wizard again

Easy – delete the files which were created above!

 

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Linux: Example Syntax for Secure Copy ‘scp’

Example syntax for Secure Copy scp

What is Secure Copy?

scp allows files to be copied to, from, or between different hosts. It uses ssh for data transfer and provides the same authentication and same level of security as ssh.

Examples

Copy the file “foobar.txt” from a remote host to the local host

$ scp your_username@remotehost.edu:foobar.txt /some/local/directory

Copy the file “foobar.txt” from the local host to a remote host

$ scp foobar.txt your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory

Copy the directory “foo” from the local host to a remote host’s directory “bar”

$ scp -r foo your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory/bar

Copy the file “foobar.txt” from remote host “rh1.edu” to remote host “rh2.edu”

$ scp your_username@rh1.edu:/some/remote/directory/foobar.txt \ your_username@rh2.edu:/some/remote/directory/

Copying the files “foo.txt” and “bar.txt” from the local host to your home directory on the remote host

$ scp foo.txt bar.txt your_username@remotehost.edu:~

Copy the file “foobar.txt” from the local host to a remote host using port 2264

$ scp -P 2264 foobar.txt your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory

Copy multiple files from the remote host to your current directory on the local host

$ scp your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory/\{a,b,c\} . $ scp your_username@remotehost.edu:~/\{foo.txt,bar.txt\} . scp

Source: Example syntax for Secure Copy scp.

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Linux: Shell Script for Removing Duplicate Files

So when it comes to removing files, this little script is the berries – it finds your duplicate files and proceeds to build a shell script to remove them all, called rem-duplicates.sh.

In here you will find all the lines to remove the duplicates commented out with a “#” – you then uncomment the ones to be removed, save and run the script. Simples!

#!/bin/bash
OUTF=rem-duplicates.sh;
echo "#! /bin/sh" > $OUTF;
find "$@" -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort -n | uniq -d | xargs -I@@ -n1 find "$@" -type f -size @@c -exec md5sum {} \; |
sort --key=1,32 | uniq -w 32 -d --all-repeated=separate | sed -r 's/^[0-9a-f]*( )*//;s/([^a-zA-Z0-9./_-])/\\\1/g;s/(.+)/#rm \1/' >> $OUTF;
chmod a+x $OUTF;
ls -l $OUTF

All credit here: Unix shell script for removing duplicate files.

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