Yearly Archives: 2017

JBoss EAP 6 – encrypt password for SecureIdentityLoginModule

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Evan Knowles — No Comments ↓

Quick snippet on password encryption for the org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule which is relatively version agnostic. From your JBoss directory, run

java -cp "modules/system/layers/base/org/picketbox/main/*;modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/logging/main/*" org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule EXAMPLE_PASSWORD

1	java -cp "modules/system/layers/base/org/picketbox/main/;modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/logging/main/" org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule EXAMPLE_PASSWORD

It’ll output the encrypted password, which you can update your configuration with. If you get an error, like

Error: Could not find or load main class org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule

1	Error: Could not find or load main class org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule

It’s most likely…

Tagged with: java, jboss, passwords-are-obscurity, security
Posted in Java, Security

Lunar Rander

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Evan Knowles — No Comments ↓

lunar-rander Hate long intros? Try it here. Uses arrow keys to navigate on desktop, and phone rotation / touch to navigate on mobile. It’s just like Lunar lander (well, not really, kinda an arm-length estimate), but on the surface of the…

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IntelliJ Plugin Development – “Already running” error

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Evan Knowles — No Comments ↓

These things are really hard to google, so hopefully this helps someone sometime. You’re creating a plugin, but when you launch it (as the new IntelliJ with the plugin installed launches), instead of a glorious splash screen you see a…

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IntelliJ plugin development – wait for indices

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Evan Knowles — No Comments ↓

Writing a new tool-window for IntelliJ? If not, well, ‘sup? Nice to see you here. Good enthusiasm. When IntelliJ launches, it kicks off an almighty (depending on project size / computer condition) indexing effort. Until this effort is complete, it’s…

Tagged with: dumb-mode, indices, intellij, plugins, tool-window
Posted in IntelliJ

Creating / renewing a Let’s Encrypt certificate for Apache and WildFly

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Evan Knowles — 4 Comments ↓

These instructions were written for Ubuntu 16, but they should translate quite easily to other flavours of *nix, relatively easily for macOS, and with only small tweaks for Windows. Probably. Apache Renewing the Apache portion of the certificate is fairly…

Tagged with: https, java, let's-encrypt, ssl, wildfly
Posted in Java, Security