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Background: I work with one or more terminal command-line always opened and having to pick up my phone to generate an OTP breaks my flow; also it’s always nice to have an alternate source of multi-factor authentication if something bad happens, one day you could lose or break your trusty mobile device. Therefore I was looking for a way to login through Okta portals without a phone. You may argument that this defeats the whole meaning of MFA, but let’s say it’s only an hack for research and fun purpose … ...

intro Resource isolation is an hot topic these days, and it’s a problem excellently solved by containerization. However, we can achieve isolation between internal tasks of an operating system by leveraging a technology exposed by the kernel: cgroups. This component is also used by Docker, and other Linux container technologies. Cgroups are the Linux way of organizing groups of processes: roughly speaking a cgroup is to a process what a process is to a thread: one can have many threads belonging to the same process, and in the same way one can join many processes inside the same cgroup. ...

In this post we are going to write a new module for python: a very simple function exported from Rust that we can consume in the Python interpreter. We’ll leverage the PyO3 Rust bindings for the Python interpreter. Let’s start with a new Cargo project: $ cargo init --lib demo_rust_lib and insert the required settings in Cargo.toml: [package] name = "rusty" version = "0.1.0" edition = "2021" [lib] name="rusty" crate-type = ["cdylib"] [dependencies.pyo3] version = "*" [features] extension-module = ["pyo3/extension-module"] default = ["extension-module"]...

Let’s get our feet wet; in this first part I’ll write about a very simple way to interface Rust and Python. First of all let’s build a Rust dynamic library with some basic functions. // this file is: src/lib.rs #[no_mangle] pub extern "C" fn hello() { println!("Hello from the library!"); } #[no_mangle] pub extern "C" fn sum(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 { a + b }...