@nitsua60 OK, found it around 5:25. It's not a bad mention at all. I think Aaron Hall picked it up and ran with it. We're not secret. I think people don't appreciate what is done in here enough
right, the MS token is something I can understand. Will have to look and dig to create a working system/service for allowing reboots by authorized individuals
which calls Powershell/PowerCLI to force VMware to reboot the VM.
@Machavity I just think it's strange that they've got all these sites with hundreds of questions a day, then they ran out of name-ideas, I guess? And now the "Overflow" site gets thousands per day. Seems like someone should clean that up.
I was significantly more confident about doing it, given that you were around, but I'd previously written and tested the sync-hard code for just this type of situation. Fortunately, it looks like it worked.
@Machavity This should be all fixed. The active instance is the only one which will have pulled that commit, so the other instances should just work (i.e. shouldn't need the !!/pull-sync-hard-reboot). It's unlikely that anything/anyone else pulled the commit (other than CI, which just works for this kind of thing). If something/someone else did so, they will need to -force the next time they pull.
@Makyen cc @ThomasWard Deliberate design decision there. The user has to manually copy the 8-digit code into your app. The SE API can do it automatically because you're required to register a redirect URI that the API can send users back to with the code already present. That doesn't work for things like FIRE that don't have a domain name, so I deliberately made it manual-copy.
@ArtOfCode makes sense. best way then to interact with MS to determine if an individual has a certain set of rights or not? Assume that the user has to provide their token for auth, and then test if the token ties to a user with the rights to execute the specific code/procedures?
@tripleee That pattern looks like it's already caught by Potentially bad keyword in body and Potentially bad keyword in answer; append -force if you really want to do that.
@ArtOfCode Sounds like a reasonable way to do it. Adding a landing URL for each app would add significant complexity, which really isn't needed for such a rarely used task.
@ThomasWard currently, not possible, the API only lets you do things as a user but doesn't tell you who the current user is. Give me a few, I'll see if I can add a route in.
namely, i'm trying to write in a way to determine if someone has Reboot permissions
@ArtOfCode if there's a way to integrate that directly into the system within MS rather than API then that saves the headache, I'll just have to give metasmoke the ability to execute the PS scripts
(PowerCLI -> VMware with purpose-generated access rights to reboot the VM)
but not anything you need to put a ton of cycles into
I wonder... Sometimes I leave my desktop on for a week and then it crashes because the hard disk somehow got detached. But the hard disk is firmly in place.
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