An end of the third holiday segment.

We returned to the USA from our first European leg, with the intention to help a friend prepare for the sale of her house. I think we got there.

Initially full of energy, we put together an Agile project plan, and agreed to have daily stand ups over coffee.

Around the end of the second week we lost focus, and started doing unplanned work (like spending five days finishing the master bathroom, which involved a lot of floor work, which in turn resulted in some nerve damage... more on this later).

Stuffing around with Netflow

ASA 5505 running ASAos 9.1.2
CentOS 7

Configure the ASA:
en
conf t
policy-map global_policy
class class-default
flow-export event-type all destination 10.10.10.150
flow-export destination management 10.10.10.150 2055

NOTE: I'm using port 2055 as the flow destination on the ASA (10.10.10.150 being the host running ntopng).

Resetting root password - bypass GRUB password protection

When booting into single user mode, you may be required to enter the root password - not that useful if you don't know it.

Procedure to reset the root password

Start the system and on the GRUB 2 boot screen, press the e key for edit.
Remove the rhgb and quiet parameters from the end.

Add the following parameter at the end of the linux16 line, or linuxefi on UEFI systems:

init=/bin/sh

The Linux kernel will run the /bin/sh shell rather than the system init daemon. Therefore, some functions may be limited or missing.