Is it possible to change proxy settings ( like what networksetup does ) in a command line tool app ? I mean I want to write a command line tool that can change network and proxy settings in mac.
If yes, Can anybody provide any source that I can go and search for starting points and learn about it ?
You can simply use NSTask to run networksetup with desired arguments. In order to do that you must include AppKit framework to your application. (But please note that you need root privilege to use networksetup in order to change proxy settings)
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According to our company policy we need to change password regularly, which means I have to update the proxy authentication password.
I have a script that solves all of this, except for the Intellij proxy setting.
Therefor, my question is: Is it possible to change Intellij IDEA's HTTP proxy setting from the command line?
The setting I'm refering to is Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > HTTP Proxy in Intellij.
I'm using IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2.4
No there is not. The password value is stored in the file .IntelliJIdea/config/options/proxy.settings.pwd but it is encrypted. Otherwise your script could modify it. You might be able to dig through the source code and see how the encryption works to see if you can replicate it in your script.
I have an ansible configuration which I know works on my local machines. However, I'm trying to now set it up on my company's machines which use a wrapper command similar to ssh (let's call it 'myssh')
for example, to access these machines, instead of writing
ssh myuser#123.123.123.123
you write
myssh myuser#123.123.123.123
which ends up calling ssh, among other things.
My question is, is there a way to swap which command ansible uses for accessing machines?
You can create a Connection Type Plugin to archive this. Looking at the ssh plugin, it appears like it might be as easy as replacing the ssh_cmd in line 333. Also specify myssh in line 69.
See here where to place the modified file. Additionally to that information, you can specify a custom location and let Ansible know about it in connection_plugins setting in ansible.cfg.
Finally again in your ansible.cfg set the transport setting to your new plugin:
transport = myssh
PS: I have never done anything like that before. This is only info from the docs.
I'm writing a cocoa app which needs to modify system proxy settings ( I'm using networksetup to do that ).The problem is that it needs system administrator level access to change proxy settings. I tried running both running an NSTask as administrator using Apple's default API ( I used STPrivilagedTask wrapper for it ) and running a shell script with administrator privileges. It works perfect either way, but the problem is that my app needs to change settings so many times, and user has to type his password every single time.
Is there anyway that I can get the privilege one time, and use it again and again ?
What you're looking to do is write a "privileged helper tool" which gets included (or delivered, or embedded) in your application bundle and you can then call using SMJobBless().
Creating a helper tool is not for the faint of heart, but here is a related question with answers that may set you off down the right path.
I need to make some configuration changes to slapd.conf. Changes are related to enabling SSL, enabling synch-replication etc.
For example, i need to add following block of configuration in slapd.conf to enable synch-replication over SSL :
TLSCACertificateFile /etc/openldap/cacerts/cacert.pem
TLSCertificateFile /etc/openldap/certs/servercrt.pem
TLSCertificateKeyFile /etc/openldap/certs/serverkey.pem
TLSVerifyClient never
Right now, I am trying to do this with shell script. Script will edit text in slapd.conf using sed, awk commands and some logic to place the text correctly in slapd.conf.
I don't think this is the best way to make configuration changes in slapd.conf.
Is there an API/commands for shell to do the same.
Please also suggest any java api for the same ?
I am using OpenLDAP.
Thanks in Advance.
If you used online configuration with the -F slapd.d option you could do it via an LDAP API.
So I'm not sure what the best way to accomplish this is, but basically I have a laptop that I use at work for Maven projects. It works fine when I'm at work, but as soon as I walk out of the door of their corporate proxy and maven server, I often have to do alot of hand-fudging of the settings.xml file when I'm at home if I'm not VPN'ed in:
We have a corporate-installed Maven Repository proxy server to store some of our own artifacts and handle being the middle-man for our commonly used artifacts.
We have an http proxy that we use for connecting to the outside world.
Both configurations have been handled by my settings.xml file for setting a single Nexus group and maven proxies. If I'm not connected to the VPN while away from the office, I have to muck around with the settings.xml each time I'm not on it, then switch it back when I am on it.
What solutions have anyone else found to handle this? I've been trying profiles to manage the proxy, but I can't seem to get it to work correctly, and it's starting to look pretty ugly. Are there some settings configurations that can detect when I'm not behind the proxy at work and not use the corporate proxy server or Maven server?
While I can think of some profile based solution to handle the proxy (basically, reading the <active> value from a property defined in a profile), this wouldn't be fully automated (the profile activation do not support network based stuff) unless you can find a file that is present or not depending on your location (in which case, you could use an existing/missing file trigger but this is kinda hacky). Anyway, this would solve only one part of the problem because mirrors can't be declared in profiles (see MNG-3525).
So, instead of trying to control this with a profile, my suggestion would be to use two settings.xml and to pass your settings-home.xml file with the -s command line option when you're at home.
Another option would be to automate the changes in your settings.xml with a script (Groovy would be a good choice as someone reported in MNG-3525).
I found a use environment variables to set nonProxyHosts together with proxy and noproxy shell aliases to be the most convenient solution when switching between networks with proxy and without it.
In settings.xml, configure proxy with
<host>proxy.corporation.int</host>
<port>8080</port>
<nonProxyHosts>${env.MAVEN_NONPROXY}</nonProxyHosts>
Then in ~/.profile set
export MAVEN_NONPROXY_PROXY='*.corporation.int|local.net|some.host.com'
export MAVEN_NONPROXY_NOPROXY='*'
alias proxy="export MAVEN_NONPROXY=\"$MAVEN_NONPROXY_PROXY\" && export all_proxy=http://proxy.corporation.int:8080"
alias noproxy="export MAVEN_NONPROXY=\"$MAVEN_NONPROXY_NOPROXY\" && unset all_proxy"
To do the switch when roaming, you would just execute from a shell:
[me#linuxbox me]$ proxy
or
[me#linuxbox me]$ noproxy
Obviously, both aliases proxy and noproxy can include much more changes than just setup of MAVEN_NOPROXY and all_proxy.
I was frustrated by the same problem: having to manually edit settings.xml when roaming between networks. So much in fact, that I wrote a Maven plugin that enables automatic discovery of proxy settings. The current implementation uses the proxy-vole library written by Bernd Rosstauscher to detect proxy settings based on OS configuration, browser, and environment settings.
I've just released the source code of the plugin on Github, under an Apache 2.0 license: https://github.com/volkertb/autoproxy-maven-plugin
You're welcome to give it a try and to see if it meets your needs. Any feedback or contributions are welcome!
(Note: you don't necessarily have to add the plugin to your project's POM. You can invoke it from the command line as well, after you've installed it. See the README on the site for more details.)
You can set MAVEN_OPTS when you need to activate a proxy:
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=my-proxy-server -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=*.my.org -Dhttps.proxyHost=my-proxy-server -Dhttps.proxyPort=80 -Dhttps.nonProxyHosts=*.my.org"