Solid-State Society

Month: May 2016

  • Repair / Verify Disk Permissions in OS X El Capitan

    $ sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --verify --standard-pkgs /
$ sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs --volume /

  • Signing Git Commits without Entering Password Using `gpg-agent` and `pinentry-mac` on OS X

    Install required packages via Homebrew:

    $ brew install gpg gpg-agent pinentry-mac

    Edit and add the following lines in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

    pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac

    Edit and enable use-agent in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf:

    use-agent

    Then add the following line to your shell profile:

    eval $(gpg-agent --daemon --sh)

  • Run `sudo` with Ansible `become` Option on Google Compute Engine

    Playbook config:

    - name: basic setup
  hosts: default
  user: user
  become: true
  become_user: root
  become_method: sudo
  roles:
    - tasks

    If you got the following errors:

    GATHERING FACTS *************************************************************** 
failed: [server1] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false}
OpenSSH_6.9p1, LibreSSL 2.1.8
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/user/.ssh/config
debug1: /Users/user/.ssh/config line 139: Applying options for server1
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *
debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master
debug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2
sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

    Then visudo and disable requiretty:

    Defaults    !requiretty