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Stealthy tunnel with stunnel, OpenVPN on Mac OS and Debian

OpenVPN is more and less banned in some countries, therefore to be able to use it there, we need to make it stealthy by installing a 3rd party software like Tor, SSH Tunnel or Stunnel which hides openVPN traffic from governmental firewall detection. The principle is quite simple, we create a tunnel between our computer and the openVPN server which is encrypted by a certificate, then we send our openVPN traffic through this tunnel. Debian 8 stunnel server installation First OpenVPN should be configured to use TCP instead of UDP, on this example we open port number 1000 and redirect …

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Microsoft / Windows

Kill remote desktop session

Remote desktop sometimes gives me this error message “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections.” It means my previous remote desktop session has been lost or allowed connections are full. I order to solve this, if you don’t mind losing your unsaved work, you will need to kill a session to open a new one, replace 192.168.1.1 by your server’s IP on the following command.

Odoo / OpenERP

Edit PDF header – Odoo 11

Edit the format of the address By default with the localization i set for my company, addresses are displayed like this picture bellow: First, you need to enable developper mode through settings, and go to the menu contact -> Configuration -> localization -> countries. Select the country you set on your company settings and click edit. Edit and change the format as your convenience. And here the result.   Edit the format of header/footer Settings are available through the menu: Settings -> General settings -> Document template section: You will be able to customize logo, text position here, click edit …

Coding / Linux / Odoo / OpenERP

Protect Odoo 11 database backup with a password

Database auto-backup backup process crashes with a database size > 200 MB and Odoo worker enabled. The module “Database auto-backup” will help you to backup Odoo database on your local disk or remotely on a FTP server through ftp our sftp protocol, however it doesn’t give us the possibility to secure a bit more the backup file generated, therefore I added 2 additional options (Enable password and password) to be able to protect by a password the compressed file by using directly Linux 7z command line and recompressing a 2nd time the file, we should use dump file instead of …

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