To get a quick list of users in AD whose accounts are locked, you can use Quest Software’s free ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory PS-Snapin. This snap-in simplifies a lot of the AD related functions through Powershell, finding locked user accounts is just one of them.

get-QADUser -Locked

This is a one step command to extract and untar a tar.gz file.

tar zxvf filename.tar.gz

z = Gunzip(uncompress) it before extracting, used on file ending in .tar.gz or .tgz
x = Extract the contents of the TAR file
v = Verbose – display contents as it is tarring or extracting
f = Filename to follow

Note: If the file does not have “.gz” extension that means its already uncompressed and one has to just extract it using “tar xvf” command.

This is a two step command to extract and untar the file.

gunzip filename.tar.gz

tar xvf filename.tar

Everyone knows you can use SSH to tunnel traffic through a remote host running an SSH server. This can allow you to use the web, for instance, as if you were at that remote host. You do this by creating a SOCKS proxy and then setting your local browser to use this proxy.

$ssh -D 8888 username@remotesshserver

This command tells your machine to create a tunnel to the remote ssh server and create a proxy on your local machine at port 8888 for you to use.

Now all you need to do is configure your browser to use this proxy.

Server: localhost or 127.0.0.1
Port: 8888

Although using this proxy through firefox will secure your web traffic, it will not hide your DNS queries. With SOCKS 5 in Firefox you can specify which side of the proxy handles DNS lookups. This can be done by setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns = true in about:config.

This is high-level overview of an ISDN call.

Call Setup

993697mS ISDNL3Tx: v=0 peb=5
            ISDN Layer3 Pcol=08(Q931) Reflen=2 ref=0011(Remote)
            Message Type = Setup
                InformationElement = BearerCapability
             0000 04 03 80 90 a2
                InformationElement = CHI
             0000 18 03 a9 83 97
            InformationElement = CallingPartyNumber
             0000 6c 0c 00 80 33 30 33 35 35 35 31 32 30 34
                InformationElement = CalledPartyNumber
             0000 70 0b 80 37 32 30 34 34 34 35 32 33 37          

Call Handling Information

993737mS ISDNL3Rx: v=0 peb=5
            ISDN Layer3 Pcol=08(Q931) Reflen=2 ref=0011(Local)
            Message Type = CallProceeding
                InformationElement = CHI
            0000 18 03 a9 83 97= use B channel 23          

Phone rings on the other side

993746mS ISDNL3Rx: v=0 peb=5
            ISDN Layer3 Pcol=08(Q931) Reflen=2 ref=0011(Local)
            Message Type = Alerting

The other side answers the call

1005111mS ISDNL3Rx: v=0 peb=5
            ISDN Layer3 Pcol=08(Q931) Reflen=2 ref=0011(Local)
            Message Type = Connect
                InformationElement = PI
            0000 1e 02 81 82
                InformationElement = Shift 6
                InformationElement = ??(28)
            0000 28 0e 31 73 74 20 32 20 77 69 72 73 20 44 43 50

Speech path established

 1005112mS ISDNL3Tx: v=0 peb=5
            ISDN Layer3 Pcol=08(Q931) Reflen=2 ref=0011(Remote)
            Message Type = ConnectAck

Call disconnected

 1007058mS ISDNL3Rx: v=0 peb=5
            ISDN Layer3 Pcol=08(Q931) Reflen=2 ref=0011(Local)
            Message Type = Disconnect
                InformationElement =
            0000 08 02 81 90=Cause code 90=Normal call clearing    

Channel Released by provider

 1007059mS ISDNL3Tx: v=0 peb=5
            ISDN Layer3 Pcol=08(Q931) Reflen=2 ref=0011(Remote)
            Message Type = Release

Channel free for new use

 1007077mS ISDNL3Rx: v=0 peb=5
            ISDN Layer3 Pcol=08(Q931) Reflen=2 ref=0011(Local)
            Message Type = ReleaseComplete

Quest Software’s free ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory PS-Snapin simplifies a lot of the AD related functions through Powershell. Following is a list of some commonly used user related actions.

Finding non-expiring passwords
get-QADUser -PasswordNeverExpires

Finding disabled accounts
get-qaduser -disabled

Enabling disabled accounts
enabled-qaduser -identity